Ilex occulta C. J. Tseng

Shrubs evergreen, ca. 2 m tall; bark gray. Young branchlets slender, longitudinally angular, pubescent; second year’s branchlets glabrescent. Petiole ca. 5 mm, pubescent or glabrescent, narrowly winged; leaf blade abaxially brown, adaxially olivaceous when dry, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rarely obovate, 3-4.5 × 1.4-1.6 cm, leathery, abaxially small glandular punctate, both surfaces glabrous, midvein slightly raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, lateral veins obscure on both surfaces, base cuneate or cuneate-acuminate, decurrent, margin subentire, slightly recurved, apex obtuse or subrounded. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, fascicles 2- or 3-fruited, axillary; fruiting pedicels 3-4 mm, pubescent. Fruit (immature) globose, 5-6 mm in diam., tuberculate, rugose when dry; persistent calyx quadrangular, ca. 2 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes broadly deltoid, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 4, broadly oblong, ca. 4 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally slightly depressed, throughout rugose and sulcate, endocarp woody. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun.

● Forests, slopes of hills; low elevations. Guangdong (Yangchun), Guangxi (Dongxing).

Ilex occulta is a species of plant in the family Aquifoliaceae. It is endemic to China.

Ilex occulta là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được C.J. Tseng mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1981.

粤桂冬青（学名：Ilex occulta）是冬青科冬青属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广西、广东等地，生长于海拔600米的地区，多生于低海拔的山坡林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。