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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Celastrales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crossopetalum ilicifolium   FAMILY Celastraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crossopetalum ilicifolium   FAMILY Celastraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Crossopetalum ilicifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Crossopetalum ilicifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Rhacoma ilicifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Holly-leaf Rhacoma, Christmasberry, Quailberry


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image of Crossopetalum ilicifolium, Holly-leaf Rhacoma, Christmasberry, Quailberry

Keith Bradley    kab_c_ilicifol1_kb72035_1

December    Miami-Dade County    FL

Navy Wells Pineland Preserve

Leaf margins spiny-toothed, coriaceous, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crossopetalum ilicifolium   FAMILY Celastraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crossopetalum ilicifolium   FAMILY Celastraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Crossopetalum ilicifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Crossopetalum ilicifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rhacoma ilicifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3957

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Pine rocklands, marl prairies, rockland hammocks; also, rarely and as an apparent waif, in disturbed, acid, peaty soil, per Weakley's Flora

Native: peninsular Florida & the West Indies

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Opposite
Margins serrately spined

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pale green
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
4 sepals
4 petals
Superior ovary

Flowers in axillary compound umbels

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Bright red
Drupe

 

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