Scientific name: Ilex longipes Chapman ex Trel. Synonym: Ilex longipes Chapman Common name: Georgia Holly; Long-Stalked Holly Family: Aquifoliaceae; Holly Flowering period: May Fruiting period: Sept. - Oct. Habitat: RARE - Rich woods on limestone slopes Herbarium specimen AUA 525 Ilex longipes Chapman ex Trel., at AUA Herbarium, Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. It is A.W. Chapman's collection at "Bluff near Rome, Floyd County, Georgia".

Type locality: Rome, Floyd County, Georgia
Herbarium specimens: type at St. Louis, MO , type at Auburn, AL
Specimens at arboretums: Jamaica Plain, MA

Comments: In 1892 this species was discovered in Rome, Georgia by Alvan W. Chapman (1809-1899) a botanist from Apalachicola Florida.

Description 1. Ilex. longipes Chapm. " Smooth; leaves 1-2inch long, thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, slender-petioled, appressed-serrate; peduncles 1 -1 ½ inch long, the sterile clustered, the fertile single; calyx lobes acute; style very short. - Rocky woods in the upper district. May. - Shrub 3-6 feet high." - A.W. Chapman 1897.

Description 2. "I. longipes Chapman. ined. - Related to the last (Ilex decidua Walt.); leaves a couple of inches long, elliptical to very broadly lanceolate, sparingly ciliate with short broad hairs, otherwise glabrous; drupes about 8 mm. in diameter, globose, solitary on pedicles about an inch long." - W. Trelease, 1889.

Description: 3. "Large shrub; deciduous leaves, leaves thin, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, obtuse to abruptly pointed, low-serrate with sharp teeth to dentate, glabrous or with midrib pilose beneath, 3-9 cm long; staminate pedicels 1.2-1.8 cm long, pistillate up to 2.3 cm long; drupe globose, 7-10 mm in diameter, red; nutlets prominently ribbed."- Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th ed. New York, 1970.

References :
1. Chapman, Alvan W. Flora of the southern United States: containing an abridged description of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida: arranged according to the natural system 3rd ed. New York: American Book Company, 1897: 82.
2. Fernald, Merritt L. Gray's Manual of Botany. 8th ed. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1970.: 981
3. Trelease, William. "Revision of North American Ilicineae and Celastraceae." The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 5. (1886-91) : 346.
4. Auburn University Herbarium ( http://www.auburn.edu/herbarium/), Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
5. Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST: (http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html), Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110
6. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford

Last updated on January 7, 2013.

Botanical exploration in Floyd County, Georgia

A.W. Chapman's collection from Floyd County, Georgia