Ilex tolucana

Ilex tolucana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Aquifoliales
Family:Aquifoliaceae
Genus:Ilex
Species: I. tolucana
Binomial name
Ilex tolucana
Hemsley
Synonyms[2]
  • Ilex discolor var. tolucana (Hemsl.) Edwin ex T.R. Dudley. 1997
  • Ilex discolor var. tolucana (Hemsl.) Edwin ex J. Linares 2005

Ilex tolucana is a tree species in the family Aquifoliaceae, native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America from east-central Sonora south to El Salvador.

Habitat and ecology

Ilex tolucana is a tree up to 15 m tall, found in oak forest or in mesophyllous mountain forest, frequently along stream banks. It is almost entirely glabrous with leaves entire or with a few small teeth toward the tip. Flowers are white, born in small umbels. Berries are small, red and globose.[3]

These plants are being conserved at the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve [1]

References

  1. 1 2 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2010). "Ramirez-Marcial, N. & González-Espinosa, M. 1998. Ilex tolucana. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". Archived from the original on 2014-06-27.
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Ilex tolucana
  3. ↑ Felger, R.S., M.B. Johnson & M.F.Wilson. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.


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