Tetracoccus ilicifolius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Picrodendraceae |
Genus: | Tetracoccus |
Species: | T. ilicifolius
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Binomial name | |
Tetracoccus ilicifolius |
Tetracoccus ilicifolius is a rare species of flowering shrub in the family Picrodendraceae known by the common names hollybush[3] and holly-leaved tetracoccus.
It was described by botanists Frederick Vernon Coville and Marshall French Gilman in 1936.[4] They had participated with other eminent biologists in the 1891 Death Valley Expedition funded by Congress.