Ilex bolivarensis Edwin

• Authority

  Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

• Family

  Aquifoliaceae

• Scientific Name

  Ilex bolivarensis Edwin

• Type

  Type. Fruit black-purple, rare, petioles purple, alt. 2150 m, Chimanta Massif,^ Torono-tepui, Bolivar, Venezuela, 21 Feb 1955, Julian A. Steyermark d John J. Wurdack 1009 (holotype N Y ; isotype V E N ) . Paratypes. Bolivar: male, flowers 5-merous, white, pink-tinged, 20 Feb 1955, Steyermark d Wurdack 957; male, flowers 4-merous, 20 Feb 1955, Steyermark d Wurdack 956. Colombia: Amazonas, male, flowers greenish-white, 6 Sept 1959, Maguire, Maguire d Fernandez.

• Description

  Latin Diagnosis - Frutex magna ad 3 m alta, in siceo ramis griseis glabris (aliquando pauci capillis longioribus permixtis), ramulis griseis puberulis sparsis capillis parvis albis, virgis brunneseentiis permixtis puberulis parvis albis et longioribus ca. 1.0 mm capillis nigris; laminis glabris, coriaceis, marginibus integris, apicibus subrotundatis, raro retusis vel parvis acuminatis, basibus aeutis vel subspathulatis vel non nunquam spathulatis, in sieco supra atrolucidis viridis, brunnescentibus viridis vel pallidis brunneis, venulis planis, subobsoletis, subtus obscuris pallidioribus, profunde punctatis, punctatibus roseis ad nigris, venulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis visibilibus vix elevatis, 2.6-3.4 (-3.8) cm longis X (1.1-)1.3-1.7(-1.9) cm latis, obovatis ad subspathulatis aliquando spathulate-obovatis, non vel ex parte decurrente in aliquantis crassatis, 3.0-4.6 mm (raro ad 5.9 mm) longis, puberulis. petiolis; parvis petiolatis, petiolis ca. 1/8-1/11 laminarum aequantibus; [male]-infloreseentiis fasciculatis, axillaribus (raro solitariis) fere in lignis horotinis vel dispositis-faseiciilatis, pedicellatis, basibus lignis horotinis, 4- vel 5-meris, 2-5 pedunculis in fascieulis, plerumque I x divisis, 3-5(-7) floribus; ex fructu [female]-floribus axillaribus solitariis, 4-meris, pedicellatis, omnino in lignis horotinis, pedicellis puberulis, ca. 1.0-1.2 cm longis, calycis-tubis brevibus, glabris, apice lobis rotundatis latis, brevibus ca. 0.7 mm longis, sparsis ciliolatis; stirpe [male] calycistubis brevibus, puberulis vel aliquando glabris, lobis ca. 1.1-1.4 mm longis ovatis, apice aeutis vel obtusis, sparsis ciliolatis, raro glabris, petalis ca. 3.3-3.6 mm longis, elliptice-ovatis ad latis ovatis, staminibus 0.7 mm longis, filamentis 0.3 mm longis, pistillodiis ovoideis; baccis drupis in vivo nigropurpureis, in siceo ovoideis subglobosis, sublaevis, brunneis, 7.0 mm longis X 5.0 mm diametro, stigmatis coronatis, mesocarpis farinosis, mediis ad largis; pyrenis 4, laevibus, trigonis, roseis ad brunnescenti-roseis, dorsaliter 4.3 mm longis X 1.2 mm latis; stirpe [female]-ignoti.