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Glabrous shrubs. Leaves to 14 x 4.5 cm, elliptic, acuminate at apex, acute at base; nerves 6-9 pairs, irregular; petiole 1 cm long; stipule 8 mm long, ovate, acuminate into a long mucro, glabrous. Cymes 5-7 cm across, sessile or subsessile, trichotomously branched with a pair of large basal bracts. Flowers 21 mm long, sessile, 3-9 together; bracts and bracteoles filiform, hispid; calyx 4 mm long, hispid, lobes ovate; corolla tube 18 mm long, slender, lobes 3.5 x 1.5 mm, oblong, puberulus; anthers 4 mm long, tailed at base; style 20 mm long, glabrous.

Flowering and fruiting: December-April
Evergreen forests
India and Myanmar
Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi)

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Images by Sourav Mahmud (Id suggestion by Surajit Koley) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links) 

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Shrub ID from Bangladesh SM083 : 6 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (2).

Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Wild

Location: Bandarban Hills
Flowering: December


Ixora sp


Could possibly be Ixora brachiata.


efi page on Ixora brachiata & FRLHT page on Ixora cuneifolia ROXB.


Pictures are small to see more details. Pl. also check with Ixora nigricans R.Br. ex Wight & Arn. 

Looks like I. nigricans !


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Arunachal shrub for ID_RKC08_180811:  Habit: Shrub (ca 1 m high)
Loc.: East Kameng district (ca 500 msl), Arunachal Pradesh
Date: July, 2009


I hope this to be Ixora acuminata.
http://www.iiim.res.in/herbarium/rubiaceae/ixora_acuminata.htm
Fruiting plant of the same was uploaded by … a few days back.
efi thread
Pl validate.

This looks like Ixora brachiata Roxb.
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Gorbale.html
http://www.biotik.org/india/species/i/ixorbrac/ixorbrac_en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ixora_brachiata_W_IMG_5978.jpg


To me it does not seem to match either with the images at Ixora brachiata or with Ixora acuminata at
http://plantillustrations.org/species.php?id_species=563341


Ixora balakrishnii Deb & Rout. ??


I think difficult to say about Ixora balakrishnii as per GBIF specimens, without high resolution images.
Also see GBIF specimens for Ixora acuminata 


Appears similar to images from Bangladesh at Shrub ID from Bangladesh SM083


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