米谷冬青 mi gu dong qing

Shrubs evergreen. Branchlets gray, glabrous, current year’s branchlets 2-2.5 mm in diam.; terminal bud conical, glabrous. Petiole ca. 3 mm, glabrous; leaf blade olivaceous and shiny on both surfaces, elliptic, 1.5-3 × 0.7-1.5 cm, leathery, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, reticulate veins evident abaxially, base acute, rarely obtuse, margin ± sparsely spinose-serrate, apex acute with a spine. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, fascicles often 2-fruited, axillary; fruiting pedicels ca. 3 mm, glabrous; bracteoles 2, basal. Fruit red, globose, ca. 4 mm in diam.; persistent calyx quadrangular, ca. 2 mm in diam., not ciliate; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 4, ca. 3 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., abaxially palmately striate, not sulcate, endocarp woody. Fl. and fr. unknown.

● Forests; 3300-3600 m. SE Xizang.