Ilex krugiana Loes.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Aquifoliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A tree, attaining a height of 15 m. and a trunk-diameter of 3 dm., usually smaller, and sometimes shrubby, the slender twigs gray, becoming nearly white, the bark thin, smooth, nearly white. Leaves elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ehartaceous, 5-10 cm. long, acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, entire, revolute-margined, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath, the slender petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers few or several in axillary clusters; peduncles about 1 cm. long; pedicels very short; calyx-lobes triangular, acute; corolla about 2.5 mm. broad, its lobes ovate; drupes purplish, usually containing 4 nutlets, about 4 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama. Andros and New Providence : Florida ; Hispaniola. Recorded by Dolley as Ilex Macoucoua Pers. Kedg's Holly.
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