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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Aquifoliaceae
| image = english holly.jpg
| image_caption = [[European Holly]] (''Ilex aquifolium'')
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Aquifoliales]]
| familia = '''Aquifoliaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[A. P. de Candolle|DC.]] ex [[A.Rich.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
''[[Ilex]]'' - [[Holly]]
}}
'''Aquifoliaceae''' is a small [[flowering plant]] family with only one genus, ''[[Ilex]]'', the [[Holly|hollies]], a large genus with about 600 species distributed nearly world-wide, absent only from [[Australasia]] and western [[North America]]. They are shrubs and small trees, including both [[evergreen]] and [[deciduous]] species. Many of them are highly decorative.
[[Image:Americanholly 8046.JPG|left|thumb|[[American Holly]] (''Ilex opaca'') foliage and berries]]
One other genus, ''Nemopanthus'', was formerly accepted as containing one species ''Nemopanthus mucronatus'', separated from ''Ilex'' on the basis that the [[flower]]s having a reduced [[calyx (flower)|calyx]] and narrow [[petal]]s, and also in [[cytology]], being [[polyploid|tetraploid]], whereas ''Ilex'' is [[diploid]]. However, following molecular analysis, it has now been merged into ''Ilex'', as ''I. mucronata'' [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?25114], [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?429925]. <br clear = left>
==References==
*Powell, M., Savolainen, V., Cuénod, P., Manen, J. F., & Andrews, S. (2000). The mountain holly (''Nemopanthus mucronatus'': Aquifoliaceae) revisited with molecular data. ''Kew Bulletin'' 55: 341-347.
[[Category:Plant families]]
[[Category:Aquifoliales]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Aquifoliaceae
| image = english holly.jpg
| image_caption = [[European Holly]] (''Ilex aquifolium'')
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Aquifoliales]]
| familia = '''Aquifoliaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[A. P. de Candolle|DC.]] ex [[A.Rich.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
''[[Ilex]]'' - [[Holly]]
}}
'''Aquifoliaceae''' is a small [[flowering plant]] family with only one genus, ''[[Ilex]]'', the [[Holly|hollies]], a large genus with about 600 species distributed nearly world-wide, absent only from [[Australasia]] and western [[North America]]. They are shrubs and small trees, including both [[evergreen]] and [[deciduous]] species. Many of them are highly decorative.
[[Image:Americanholly 8046.JPG|left|thumb|[[American Holly]] (''Ilex opaca'') foliage and berries]]
One other genus, ''Nemopanthus'', was formerly accepted as containing one species ''Nemopanthus mucronatus'', separated from ''Ilex'' on the basis that the [[flower]]s having a reduced [[calyx (flower)|calyx]] and narrow [[petal]]s, and also in [[cytology]], being [[polyploid|tetraploid]], whereas ''Ilex'' is [[diploid]]. However, following molecular analysis, it has now been merged into ''Ilex'', as ''I. mucronata'' [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?25114], [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?429925]. <br clear = left>
==References==
*Powell, M., Savolainen, V., Cuénod, P., Manen, J. F., & Andrews, S. (2000). The mountain holly (''Nemopanthus mucronatus'': Aquifoliaceae) revisited with molecular data. ''Kew Bulletin'' 55: 341-347.
[[Category:Plant families]]
[[Category:Aquifoliales]]
