Ilex nothofagifolia Kingdon-Ward

Trees evergreen, small, 3-5 m tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets brown or gray, terete; young ones longitudinally ridged and sulcate, ridges densely corky verruculose; old branchlets smooth, nearly not verruculose; terminal buds narrowly ovoid; bud scales glabrous or puberulent. Leaves on first to third year’s branchlets; petiole 4-5 mm, slender, narrowly sulcate; leaf blade broadly elliptic, rarely broadly obovate or broadly ovate, 0.5-1.7 × 0.5-1.2 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, and reticulate veins slightly raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, base obtuse or cuneate, margin slightly reflexed, with 4-9 pairs of teeth, apex obtuse-rounded, acumen. Inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or few fascicled, fascicles 2- or 3-flowered, axillary on second year’s branchlets. Male inflorescences: pedicels ca. 4 mm; bracteoles 2, subbasal; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular, glabrous, not ciliate; corolla greenish, rotate, ca. 4 mm in diam., petals 4, ovate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous, not ciliate, basally slightly connate; stamens 4, shorter than petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary globose, apex rounded. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: 1- or 2-fruited; fruiting pedicels 2.5-3 mm; bracteoles 2, basal, narrowly ovate, not ciliate. Fruit red, subglobose, 3-3.5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, subquadrangular, 4-lobed, lobes subrounded, glabrous; persistent style evident, stigma discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, ellipsoidal, ca. 3 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., both ends obtuse, abaxially convex, longitudinally 3- or 4-striate, nearly smooth, laterally smooth, endocarp leathery. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Oct-Nov.

SE Xizang (Mêdog), W Yunnan (Fugong, Gongshan, Tengchong) [N India, N Myanmar].

Broad-leaved forests, Tsuga forests, slopes, hills; 2000-3000 m.

Ilex intricata J. D. Hooker var. oblata W. E. Evans; I. oblata (W. E. Evans) H. F. Comber.

Ilex nothofagifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được F.K.Ward mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1927.

小圆叶冬青（学名：Ilex nothofagifolia）是冬青科冬青属的植物。分布于印度、缅甸以及中国大陆的云南、西藏等地，生长于海拔2,000米至3,000米的地区，多生在山坡阔叶林或铁杉林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。