粗毛冬青 cu mao dong qing

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 8.5 m tall. Branchlets, terminal buds, petioles, inflorescence bracts, and calyx densely gray-white villous-strigose; branchlets ashy white, terete, striate; terminal buds shortly conical, outer scales rostrate-curved. Stipules minute and thinly membranous, or caducous; petiole 7-10 mm, adaxially deeply sulcate; leaf blade elliptic, 4-7.5 × 1-2 cm, subleathery, amber punctate abaxially, midvein glabrous, deeply impressed adaxially, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, slightly raised abaxially, obscure adaxially, base acute to attenuate, margin entire or subentire, shallowly undulate, on distal half with glandular black tips, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, acumen 5-10(-15) mm, mucronate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, solitary or fasciculate, fascicles 2-4-fruited, axillary on current year’s branchlets; axis ca. 1 mm, or absent; bracts ovate, ca. 0.5 mm, apex acute; fruiting pedicels 2-4 mm. Fruit red, globose-quadrangular, 2.5-3 mm, 1.5-2 mm in diam., deeply 4-8-sulcate; exocarp very thin, rugose and sulcate, villous-strigose with dense, rigid, erect and appressed, gray-white trichomes; persistent calyx explanate, patelliform, 1-2 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, apex obtuse; persistent stigma black, thickly discoid, shallowly 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, broadly ovate, trigonous, 2-2.5 mm, 1.5-2 mm in diam., both ends obtuse or rounded, abaxially 1-sulcate, 3-5-striate, striae parallel or curved, laterally ridged, not sulcate, 2- or 3-striate and reticulate-pitted, endocarp leathery. Fl. unknown, fr. Jul.

● Forests, mountains; 600-1400 m. Guangdong (Xinfeng).