Ilex tolucana

Ilex tolucana
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Aquifoliales
Family:	Aquifoliaceae
Genus:	Ilex
Species:	I. tolucana
Binomial name
	Ilex tolucana; Hemsley
Synonyms
	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.^[2]

These plants are being conserved at the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve ^[3]

References

^ Tropicos, Ilex tolucana
^ Felger, R.S., M.B. Johnson & M.F.Wilson. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.
^ 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".

Ramirez-Marcial, N. & González-Espinosa, M. 1998. Ilex tolucana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.

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[1] Tropicos, Ilex tolucana

[2] Felger, R.S., M.B. Johnson & M.F.Wilson. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.

[3] 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".

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