毛冬青(原变种) mao dong qing (yuan bian zhong)

Ilex pubescens var. glabra H. T. Chang; I. trichoclada Hayata (1913), not Loesener (1901).

Branchlets densely hirsute. Leaf blade elliptic or narrowly ovate, 2-6 × 1-2.5(-3) cm, papery or membranous, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Inflorescences fasciculate; flowers pink. Fruit ca. 4 mm in diam.; pyrenes (5 or)6(or 7), ca. 3 mm, abaxially longitudinally and broadly sulcate, endocarp leathery or subwoody. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Nov.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests, forest margins, shrubby areas, streamsides, roadsides; (sea level to)100-1000 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang.