Ilex longzhouensis C. J. Tseng

Trees evergreen, small, 4-6 m tall. Young branchlets slender, densely yellow tomentose; older branchlets sparsely tomentose, longitudinally striate and sulcate, with leaf scars and lenticels; terminal buds small. Petiole 3-5 mm, rounded abaxially, sulcate adaxially, densely yellow tomentose; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 7-9 × 2-3.2 cm, papery, yellow tomentose, midvein raised abaxially, tomentose only at base, adaxially subraised or flat, lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, raised on both surfaces or slightly impressed adaxially, reticulate veins slightly evident on both surfaces, glabrous throughout, base obtuse or rounded, margin undulate-crenulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets; peduncles and pedicels densely yellow tomentose. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 3 or 4, with 6 or more flowers; flowers 4-merous; calyx deeply lobed, lobes triangular, outside yellow tomentose, ciliate; petals oblong; stamens ca. as long as or slightly shorter than petals, filaments shorter than anthers, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary globose, stigma shallowly 4-lobed. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 2 or 3, 3-6-flowered; flowers 4-merous; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes shorter than petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary globose. Infructescences: 1-3-fruited; peduncles 3-5 mm; fruiting pedicels 2-3 mm, densely yellow tomentose throughout; bracteoles caducous. Fruit red, globose, ca. 6 mm in diam.; persistent calyx quadrangular, explanate, densely pubescent, lobes deltoid, ciliate; persistent stigma mammilliform; pyrenes 5, oblong, ca. 5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., abaxially 1-sulcate, endocarp stony. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Oct.

SW Guangxi (Longzhou), SE Yunnan (Funing).

● Thin forests on limestone hills; 500-1200 m.

Ilex xylosmifolia C. Y. Wu ex Y. R. Li ["xylosmaefolia"].

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

Ilex longzhouensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được C.J. Tseng mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1984.

龙州冬青（学名：Ilex longzhouensis）为冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南、广西等地，生长于海拔500米至1,000米的地区，多生在石灰岩石山疏林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。