Ilex umbellulata

Ilex umbellulata is a spreading, evergreen tree or shrub, reaching up to fifteen, exceptionally eighteen, metres in height, and with glabrous branchlets. The bark is grey-brown. The glabrous leaves have an ovate, elliptic or oblong shape, with 1-2 cm long petioles, an entire margin, and minute stipules. Flowers are small, pale white and fragrant. The plants flower and fruit in April to September in Bangladesh, but flowers from May to September, fruiting July to November in Yunnan.

The distribution includes the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayan region of India, China (restricted to Yunnan), Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. The tree is only found in Kaptai National Park and the forest of Khagrachari in Bangladesh. It is a very rare tree in Bangladesh.

Ilex umbellulata occurs at altitudes of 500 to 1,700 metres in Yunnan. The species is most often found growing in a habitat of evergreen broadleaf forests or on sparsely-forested slopes in China. It occurs in both primary and secondary woodland in Bangladesh. The fruit is edible and most of the local fruit-eating bird species visit during the fruiting period.

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