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Ixora sivarajiana
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Family:
RUBIACEAE
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Citation: Ixora sivarajiana Pradeep, Nordic J. Bot. 17:315. 1997; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 75. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 424. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattuthechi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Small trees 5-8 m tall, stem solid, terete, glabrous with prominent leaf scars. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, crowded towards the apices of branchlets, narrowly elliptic-obovate or oblong, 9-16 x 2.5-6 cm, narrowed at base, acute, shortly mucronate, glabrous, coriaceous, margins entire; lateral nerves 12-15 pairs, conspicuous beneath, joining in loops towards margins; stipules broadly ovate, 7-9 x 4-5 mm, long acuminate at apex, glabrous, basal part often persistent; petiole 1-3 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence a dense pendant, corymbose trichotomously branched branchiate dichasial cyme; peduncle 10-15 cm long, deep pink, usually with a whorl of reduced, subsessile, glabrous, floral leaves near the base, 1.5-5.5 x 0.6-2.5 cm, bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent internally towards base. Flowers tetramerous, 6-8 mm in diameter, carmine-pink, sessile or pedicellate, bracteolate; pedicel to 2 mm long, hispid; bracteoles 1.5-2 mm long, linear, minutely hairy. Calyx tube 1 mm long, sepals lanceolate, 1.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with few scattered simple hairs externally and at the throat within. Corolla-lobes 4, oblong, flat and spreading at first, later margins recurved, 4-5 x 3-4 mm, rounded at apex. Stamens 4, attached to the throat by a short filament, filament 1 mm long, glabrous; anthers dorsifixed, yellow, elliptic, 2 mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, 1 mm long, 2-celled with one ovule in each cell, pubescent; stigma bifid, each lobe 1.25 mm long, rounded at apex, glabrous; style 12 mm long, exserted 2 mm beyond the tube, glabrous. Fruit depressed globose, 10-12 mm in diameter, dark purple with short persistent calyx teeth at apex; seeds 2, hemispherical, 7 x 7 mm, glabrous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-May
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-2240
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Localities:
Vellarimala
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