秤星树(原变种) cheng xing shu (yuan bian zhong)

Prinos asprellus Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey Voy. 176. 1833; Ilex asprella var. gracilipes (Merrill) Loesener; I. gracilipes Merrill; I. merrillii Briquet; I. oxyphylla Miquel.

Leaf blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, (3-)4-6(-7) × (1.5-)2-3.5 cm, acumen 6-10 mm. Fruiting pedicel ca. 3 cm; fruit globose, 5-7 mm in diam.; persistent stigma capitate; pyrenes 4-6, ca. 5 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., laterally nearly smooth and striate.

Sparse forests on slopes, shrubby areas, roadsides; 400-1000 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Philippines].