Habit: Ilex nitida var. repanda grows as a large shrub to small tree up to 8 m in height with a trunk up to 50 cm in diameter with smooth gray/white bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, up 8 cm in length, obovate to elliptic, with a dentate/repand (occasionally entire) leaf margin and an obtuse to emarginate (occasionally mucronate) leaf apex. The leaves are dark, shiny green at maturity.
Ilex nitida var. repanda is dioecious. The flowers occur in cymose clusters along the stem from leaf axils. The calyx has 4 greenish unfused sepals. The corolla has 4 white unfused petals. The staminate flowers have 4 stamens and a nonfunctional carpel. The carpellate flowers have 4 nonfunctional stamens and the ovary is superior with 4 locules. The fruit is a drupe that is red at maturity.
Habitat: Ilex nitida var. repanda grows in Pine Woodlands and Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formations – Woodland/Shrublands (Scrublands) often near wetlands.
Distribution: Ilex nitida var. repanda is found on the northern pine islands in the Lucayan Archipelago as well as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Ilex nitida var. repanda has no known medicinal uses in the Bahamas.