Ilex nanchuanensis Z. M. Tan

Shrubs evergreen, 1-2 m tall. Young branchlets green-brown, longitudinally angular and sulcate, puberulent or glabrous, lenticels distinct. Stipules minute; petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous or puberulent; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially deep green, ovate-oblong, 3.5-5.5 × 1.2-2 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein slightly impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5-8 pairs, slightly raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins evident, base cuneate, margin crenulate-serrate, apex long acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets; fruiting pedicels 6-10 mm, glabrous or puberulent, with subulate bracteoles. Fruit red, globose, 4-5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx 4- or 5-lobed, lobes deltoid, glabrous, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 4, ellipsoidal, ca. 2 mm, ca. 1 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally 1-sulcate, laterally smooth. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct-Nov.

Chongqing (Nanchuan).

● Mountain forests; 600-800 m.

Ilex nanchuanensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Z.M. Tan mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1983.

南川冬青（学名：Ilex nanchuanensis）为冬青科冬青属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的四川等地，生长于海拔600米至800米的地区，多生在山地林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。