Ilex ningdeensis C. J. Tseng

Trees evergreen. Branchlets brown, angular and sulcate, densely black puberulent. Petiole 6-8 mm, adaxially sulcate, densely puberulent; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green when dry, adaxially dark olivaceous, obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or obovate, 4-6 × 2-2.7 cm, leathery, glabrous, abaxially glandular punctate, midvein impressed, only at base puberulent adaxially, lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, reticulate veins evident abaxially, base obtuse and decurrent, margin crenulate, apex obtuse-rounded or abruptly shortly acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, axillary; fruiting pedicels ca. 5 mm, glabrescent; bracteoles basal. Fruit globose, ca. 1 cm in diam.; persistent calyx ca. 3 mm in diam., shallowly 4-lobed, lobes deltoid-ovate or suborbicular, not ciliate; persistent stigma navel-like; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 6 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam., abaxially rugose and sulcate, laterally striate and sulcate, endocarp stony. Fl. unknown, fr. Nov.

Fujian (Ningde).

● Forests or forest margins on mountain slopes; 800-1400 m.