《中国植物志》|| 冬青科 AQUIFOLIACEAE ||似落叶冬青组 Sect. 4. Prinoides (DC.) Gray ||秤星树 Ilex asprella (Hook. & Arn.) Champ. ex Benth.

199.秤星树（中国高等植物图鉴）
Ilex asprella (Hook. et Arn.) Champ. ex Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. KewGard. Misc. 4: 329. 1852; Benth. Fl. Hongkong 65. 1861; Maxim. in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. VII, 29: 49. 1881; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 115. 1886; Henry in Transact. As. Soc. Jap. 24 (Suppl.): 26. 1896; Loes. in Nov. Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 78: 477 (Monog. Aquif. 1: 477). 1901; Dunn et Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. Add. Ser. 10: 60. 1912; Merr. in Sunyats. 1: 22. 1930; S. Y. Hu in Journ. Arn. Arb. 30 (3): 269. 1949, et 34: 144. 1953; Liu, Ill. Nat. Intr. Lign. Pl. Taiwan 2: 762, f. 614. 19621; Li, Woody Fl. Taiwan 454. 1963, et Fl. Taiwan 3: 607. 1977;中国高等植物图鉴2: 642,图3013. 1972;湖南植物名录218. 1987;福建植物志3: 274. 1987;浙江植物志4: 6,图4-6. 1993; S. Y. Lu in T. C. Huang, Fl. Taiwan ed. 2, 3: 622. 1993. ——Prinos asprellus Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 176, pl. 36, fig. 1, 2. 1833; Walp. Rep. 1: 541. 1842. ——Ilex axyphylla Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1: 124. 1861; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 17. 1886. ——I. gracilipes Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 3: 237. 1908, et 5: 358. 1901; Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 5: 1664. 1913.——I. merrillii Briq. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve 20: 421. 1919.
落叶灌木，高达3米；具长枝和宿短枝，长枝纤细，栗褐色，无毛，具淡色皮孔，短枝多皱，具宿存的鳞片和叶痕。叶膜质，在长枝上互生，在缩短枝上，1-4枚簇生枝顶，卵形或卵状椭圆形，长（3-）4-6（-7）厘米，宽（1.5-)2-3.5厘米，先端尾状渐尖，尖头长6-10毫米，基部钝至近圆形，边缘具锯齿，叶面绿色，被微柔毛，背面淡绿色，无毛，主脉在叶面下凹，在背面隆起，侧脉5-6对，在叶面平坦，在背面凸起，拱形上升并于近叶缘处网结，网状脉两面可见；叶柄长3-8毫米，上面具槽，下面半圆形，无毛；托叶小，胼胝质，三角形，宿存。雄花序：2或3花呈束状或单生于叶腋或鳞片腋内，位于腋芽与叶柄之间；花梗长4-6（-9）毫米；花4或5基数；花萼盘状，直径2.5-3毫米，无毛，裂片4-5，阔三角形或圆形，啮蚀状具缘毛；花冠白色，辐状，直径约6毫米，花瓣4-5，近圆形，直径约2毫米，稀具缘毛，基部合生；雄蕊4或5，花丝长约1.5毫米，花药长圆形，长约1毫米；败育子房叶枕状，中央具短喙。雌花序：单生于叶腋或鳞片腋内，花梗长1-2厘米，无毛；花4-6基数；花萼直径约3毫米，4-6深裂，裂片边缘具缘毛；花冠辐状，花瓣近圆形，直径2毫米，基部合生；退化雄蕊长约1毫米，败育花药箭头状；子房卵球状，直径约1.5毫米，花柱明显，柱头厚盘状。果球形，直径5-7毫米，熟时变黑色，具纵条纹及沟，基部具平展的宿存花萼，花萼具缘毛，顶端具头状宿存柱头，花柱略明显，具分核4-6粒。分核倒卵状椭圆形，长5毫米，背部宽约2毫米，背面具3条脊和沟，侧面几平滑，腹面龙骨突起锋利，内果皮石质。花期3月，果期4-10月。
产于浙江、江西、福建、台湾、湖南、广东、广西、香港等地；生于海拔400-1000米的山地疏林中或路旁灌丛中。分布于菲律宾群岛。
本种的根、叶入药，有清热解毒、生津止渴、消肿散瘀之功效。叶含熊果酸，对冠心病，心绞痛有一定疗效；根加水在锈铁上磨汁内服，能解砒霜和毒菌中毒。

《Flora of China》|| Aquifoliaceae || Ilex ||秤星树 Ilex asprella

199. Ilex asprella (Hooker & Arnott) Champion ex Bentham, Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 329. 1852.

秤星树 cheng xing shu

Shrubs deciduous, ca. 3 m tall. Branchlets castaneous, slender, glabrous; lenticels light colored; spur branchlets rugose, with persistent scales and leaf scars. Stipules persistent, deltoid, minute; petiole 3-8 mm, abaxially subrounded, glabrous, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, ovate or ovate-elliptic, (3-)4-6(-8) × (1.5-)2-3.5 cm, membranous, abaxially glabrous, adaxially puberulent, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, raised abaxially, flat adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins evident on both surfaces, base obtuse to subrounded, margin serrate, apex caudate-acuminate, acumen (3-)6-10(-15) mm. Male inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or fasciculate, fascicles 2-5-flowered, axillary on leaves or scales; pedicels 4-6(-9) mm; flowers white, 4- or 5-merous; calyx patelliform, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous, 4- or 5-lobed, lobes broadly deltoid or orbicular, margin erose, ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 6 mm in diam., petals suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam., basally slightly connate, rarely ciliate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals, filaments ca. 1.5 mm, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm; rudimentary ovary pulvinate, rostellate. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary, axillary on leaves or scales; pedicels 1-2 cm, glabrous; flowers 4-6-merous; calyx deeply 4-6-lobed, ca. 3 mm in diam., lobes ciliate; corolla rotate, petals suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam., basally slightly connate; staminodes ca. 1 mm, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., style present, stigma thickly discoid. Fruit black, globose or ellipsoidal, 5-7(-8) mm in diam., longitudinally striate and sulcate; fruiting pedicel 2-3 cm; persistent calyx explanate, lobes ciliate; persistent stigma capitate or thickly discoid, style evident; pyrenes 4-6, obovoid-ellipsoidal, ca. 5(or 8) mm, ca. 2(or 3) mm in diam., abaxially 3-striate and sulcate, laterally striate, nearly smooth or sulcate, adaxial keel sharp, endocarp stony. Fl. Mar, fr. Apr-Oct.

Sparse forests on slopes, shrubby areas, roadsides; 400-1000 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Philippines, ?Vietnam].