Ilex

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Aquifoliaceae

• Scientific Name

  Ilex

• Description

  Species Description - Leaves minutely stipulate. Flowers cymose or solitary, perfect or polygamous. Calyx small, 4-5-cleft or toothed. Petals 4-9, somewhat united at the base, oblong, obtuse. Stamens of the same number, adnate to the base of the corolla. Berry-like drupe globose, with 4-8 bony or crustaceous nutlets. [Ancient name of the Holly Oak.] About 280 species, mostly natives of America. Type species: Ilex Aquifolium L.