Lomatia ilicifolia, commonly known as Holly Lomatia or Native Holly, is a shrub species that is native to eastern Australia

Australia

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. The species grows up to 3 metres high and has ovate to elliptic, prickly leaves that are 10 to 18 cm long and 2.5 to 5.5 centimetres wide. The white to cream terminal conflorescences appear between November and February, most profusely following fire. Follicles, which develop about 3 months later, later are up to 4 cm long.
The species occurs in both montane and low-lying areas from the Otway Ranges in southern Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, eastward to Gippsland

Gippsland

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 and northward to the Southern Highlands of New South Wales

New South Wales

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