Ilex viridis Champ. ex Benth.

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 1-5 m tall. Young branchlets subquadrangular, longitudinally angular and sulcate, pubescent along groove, glabrous along angles; older branchlets subterete, with ridges and oblong or elliptic lenticels; terminal buds conical, glabrous, apically acute. Petiole 4-6 mm, shallowly sulcate, abaxially rugose, adaxially puberulent or glabrous, narrowly winged by decurrent leaf base; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, shiny, obovate, obovate-elliptic, or broadly elliptic, 2.5-7 × 1.5-3 cm, leathery, abaxially conspicuously dark punctate, midvein deeply sulcate and sparsely pubescent adaxially, lateral veins 5-8 pairs, distinct on both surfaces, reticulate veins obscure abaxially, slightly raised adaxially, base obtuse or cuneate, margin slightly recurved, crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, acute, or shortly acuminate. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1-3, 1-5-flowered, solitary, axillary on scales or lower leaves of current year’s branchlets, or fasciculate on second year’s branchlets; peduncles 3-5 mm; pedicels ca. 2 mm; bracteoles 1 or 2, basal or submedian, subulate; flowers white, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, 2-3 mm in diam., lobes broadly deltoid, margin erose, not ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 7 mm in diam., petals obovate or orbicular, ca. 2.5 mm, basally slightly connate; stamens 4, ca. 2/3 as long as petals, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary narrowly conical, rostellate. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets; pedicels 1-1.5 cm, glabrous, gradually enlarged toward distal half; bracteoles 2, median, subulate; calyx 4-5 mm in diam., glabrous, 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular; petals 4, ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, basally slightly connate; staminodes ca. 1/3 as long as petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm in diam., stigma discoid, convex. Fruit black, globose or slightly depressed globose, 9-11 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 1-1.7 cm; persistent calyx explanate, ca. 5 mm in diam.; persistent stigma discoid-mammilliform, 1.5-2 mm in diam.; pyrenes 4, ellipsoidal, cross section trigonous, 4-6 mm, 3-5 mm in diam., abaxially convex, striate, slightly rugose, laterally smooth, endocarp leathery. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Oct.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

● Understories of evergreen broad-leaved forests, sparse forests and thickets on mountains; 300-1700(-2100) m.

Ilex triflora Blume var. viridis (Champion ex Bentham) Loesener.

Ilex viridis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Champ. ex Benth. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1852.

绿冬青（学名：Ilex viridis）是冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的安徽、湖北、福建、贵州、浙江、江西、海南等地，生长于海拔300米至2,050米的地区，一般生于丘陵地区的常绿阔叶林下、山地、疏林和灌木丛中，目前已由人工引种栽培。