Ilex

Key to the species of Ilex View in CoL from Northeast India

1. Leaves fairly entire ......................................... 2

1. Leaves serrate or serrulate ............................. 5

2. Branchlets glabrous; flowers 4–6-merous ............................................................ I. venulosa View in CoL

2. Branchlets other than glabrous; flowers 4–5-merous ...................................................... 3

3. Calyx-lobes ovate .............................. I. doniana View in CoL

3. Calyx-lobes orbicular ..................................... 4

4. Calyx-lobes ciliate at margins, glabrous outside; petals ovate-obovate to oblong ........ I. godajam View in CoL

4. Calyx-lobes entire at margins, pubescent outside; petals orbicular-oblong ......... I. sulcata View in CoL

5. Leaves dark gland dotted beneath .... I. thomsonii View in CoL

5. Leaves not gland dotted beneath ................... 6

6. Flowers solitary; 4-merous .............. I. griffithii View in CoL

6. Flowers fascicled; 4–5-merous ...................... 7

7. Petioles channeled. Calyx lobes not unequal .. 8

7. Petioles winged. Calyx lobes slightly unequal .... 9

8. Branchlets warty; leaves few distant, spinous teeth or rarely entire; flowers 4-merous ......................................................... I. embelioides View in CoL

8. Branchlets white streak granular; leaves acuminate-caudate; flowers 4–5-merous. .......................................................... I. theaefolia

9. Leaves membranous .......................... I. fragilis View in CoL

9. Leaves coriaceous ......................................... 10

10. Leaf lateral veins 10–13 pairs ............................ .............................. I. fargesii subsp. melanotricha View in CoL

10. Leaf lateral veins 12–15 pairs ..... I. sikkimensis View in CoL