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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Aquifoliaceae
Ilex aquifolium

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 125 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Holly, common holly.

Description:
Shrubs or rarely trees usually less than 4 m high, finely pubescent on very young parts and inflorescences; leaves ovate or less often elliptic to lanceolate, usually with spine-tipped teeth along the undulate margins but sometimes entire and flat, dark-green and very glossy above, usually 4-8 cm long; petioles short.

Cymes usually 1-6-flowered; pedicels to 2 mm long; sepals usually finely hairy, obtuse; corolla white or pinkish, c. 8 mm diam.

Drupe globose, bright-red, 8-10 mm diam.

image of FSA2_Ilex_aqu.jpg Ilex aquifolium
Image source: fig 425 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plants in Australia, fig. 131.

Distribution:  Commonly cultivated and doubtfully truly naturalised.

S.Aust.: SL.   N.S.W.   native to Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: mainly autumn.


SA Distribution Map based
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