Ilex Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Lozada-Pérez, Lucio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Aquifoliales
Aquifoliaceae
Ilex

description: They can be distinguished with following key.
1. Female flowers in fasciculate cymes..................................................................................................................................................2
- Female flowers in solitary cymes.......................................................................................................................................................8
2. Petiole 1.5 ‒ 4.0 cm long......................................................................................................................................................................3
- Petiole 0.7 ‒ 1.3 cm long.................................................................................................................................................. Ilex anodonta
3. Leaf blade 15.0 ‒ 40.0 cm long, 10 ‒ 15 cm wide ............................................................................................................... Ilex máxima
- Leaf blade 4.0 ‒ 22.0 cm, 2.0 ‒ 9.0 cm wide..........................................................................................................................................4
4. Leaf blade 9.0 ‒ 22.0 cm long ................................................................................................................................. Ilex montebellensis
- Leaf blade 4.0 ‒ 9.0 cm long................................................................................................................................................................5
5. Underside of leaves with yellow venation...................................................................................................................... Ilex tectonica
- Underside of leaves with venation of the same colour as blade.........................................................................................................6
6. Young branches glabrous............................................................................................................................................... Ilex belizensis
- Young branches puberulent to glabrescent.........................................................................................................................................7
7. Fruiting dichasia branched to 2 orders; fruit 0.9 ‒ 1.1 cm long .................................................................................... Ilex fortunensis
- Underside of leaves with venation of the same colour as the blade................................................................................. Ilex skutchii
8. Leaf blade elliptic to ovate.................................................................................................................................................................9
- Leaf blade spatulate, obovate to lanceolate......................................................................................................................................10
9. Staminate inflorescences with peduncles 4.0 ‒ 10.0 cm long; pistillate inflorescences in compound dichasia ........ Ilex costaricensis
- Staminate inflorescences with peduncles 0.3 ‒ 0.9 cm long; pistillate inflorescences reduced to single flower................. Ilex haberi
10. Female flowers in compound dichasia, the pedicels articulate .................................................................................... Ilex guianensis
- Female flowers in simple dichasia, the pedicels not articulate ................................................................................ Ilex quercetorum
description: Published as part of Lozada-Pérez, Lucio, 2019, A new species of Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) from Mexico, pp. 296-300 in Phytotaxa 409 (5) on pages 297-299, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.409.5.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13713857