Ilex mitis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Aquifoliales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Aquifoliales

Familia: Aquifoliaceae
Genus: Ilex
Species: Ilex mitis
Varietates: I. m. var. mitis – I. m. var. schliebenii

Name

Ilex mitis (L.) Radlk., (1887).

Synonyms

Ilex capensis Harv. & Sond.
Ilex monticola Tul.
Sideroxylon mite L.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- - South Africa (Limpopo, North-West Prov., Gauteng, Mpulamanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, W-Cape Prov., E-Cape Prov.), Lesotho, Swaziland, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), Cameroon, Sao Tome, Angola, SE-D.R. Congo (Zaire), Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar, South Sudan, Guinea

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Radlkofer, L.A.T. 1887. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. London 1885: 1081.

Links

International Plant Names Index. 2018. Ilex mitis. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 27 2018.
Hassler, M. 2018. Ilex mitis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Oct. 27. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Ilex mitis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Oct. 27. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2018. Ilex mitis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Oct. 2018.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Ilex mitis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Without, Waterboom, Waterhout
العربية: بهشية طرية
English: African holly, Cape holly, Watertree
Sesotho sa Leboa: Monamane
SiSwati: liBota
Sesotho: Phukgu, Phukgile
Tshivenda: Mutanzwa-khamelo
isiXhosa: umDuma
isiZulu: iPhuphuma

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