Tetracoccus ilicifolius

Tetracoccus ilicifolius

Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Genus: Tetracoccus
Species:
T. ilicifolius
Binomial name
Tetracoccus ilicifolius
Coville & Gilman [2]

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.

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ^ Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries.edu: Frederick Vernon Coville (1867−1937) & Marshall French Gilman (1871−1944), collection team in California (Death Valley).
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Tetracoccus ilicifolius​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  4. ^ Flora of North America−efloras.org: Tetracoccus ilicifolius