Ilex intricata Hook. fil.

Shrubs evergreen, prostrate, small, 0.3-2 m tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets brown to dark brown, terete, longitudinally ridged and verrucose; terminal buds ovoid, bud scales glabrous. Leaves on first to fourth year’s branchlets; petiole 1-2 mm, adaxially shallowly sulcate, winged by decurrent leaf base; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially deep green, shiny, obovate-elliptic, 0.5-2 × 0.3-0.9 cm, leathery or subleathery, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 2-4 pairs, raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins obscure abaxially, impressed adaxially, base obtuse or cuneate, margin serrate with 3-6 pairs of teeth, apex obtuse or rounded, with acumen. Inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or few fascicled, fascicles 2- or 3-flowered, axillary on second year’s branchlets; bracts suborbicular, glabrous, not ciliate; flowers 4-merous, pink. Male inflorescences: pedicels ca. 2 mm, glabrous; bracteoles 2, subbasal, ovate-deltoid, glabrous, not ciliate; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed, lobes ovate, not ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 5 mm in diam., petals oblong, ca. 2 mm, basally slightly connate; stamens 4, shorter than petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary subglobose, apex rounded. Female inflorescences: pedicels ca. 1 mm, glabrous; calyx as in male flowers; petals free, ovate, ca. 2 mm; staminodes ca. 2/3 as long as petals, sterile anthers cordate; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., style evident, stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Infructescences: 1(or 2)-fruited; fruiting pedicels ca. 2 mm. Fruit red, globose, ca. 5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, quadrangular; persistent stigma thickly discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 4 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally palmately striate and sulcate, laterally striate and slightly rugose, endocarp woody. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov. 2n = 36*.

E. Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), S. Tibet, N. Burma, W. China.

W Sichuan, SE Xizang (Mêdog), NW Yunnan (Gongshan) [Bhutan, India, N Myanmar, Nepal].

2800-3700 m

Abies forests; 3000-4000 m.

Ilex intricata f. macrophylla H. F. Comber.

Ilex intricata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Hook.f. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1875.

错枝冬青（学名：Ilex intricata）为冬青科冬青属的植物。分布于不丹、锡金、印度、尼泊尔、缅甸以及中国大陆的西藏、四川、云南等地，生长于海拔3,200米的地区，多生在冷杉林下，目前已由人工引种栽培。