Ixora brachypoda Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Ixora

Characteristics

Leaves 8–37 × 4.5–13.5 cm, narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong-ovate, the upper ones, particularly those subtending the inflorescence, more ovate in shape, acute and mucronate or acuminate at the apex, obtuse rounded or subcordate to distinctly cordate at the base, coriaceous, dull above; lateral nerves in 7–14(18) main pairs; the upper ones ± sessile or with petiole 0.2–2 mm long (fide De Block), lower ones with petiole 1.5–5(7) mm long; stipules about 5 mm long, connate at base, strongly keeled, hairy at base within.
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Inflorescences many-flowered, contracted trichotomous, c. 3 cm wide at base, about 10–12 cm wide across the corollas, puberulous; peduncle 1–9.5 cm long, sometimes with a lobed involucral bract made up of stipules and reduced leaves placed above the leaves subtending the inflorescence; pedicels of lateral flowers of triads up to 2 mm long; central flowers subsessile; bracts 3 mm long, ovate or triangular; bracteoles 0.7 mm long, triangular, supporting lateral flowers.
A shrub or small tree. It has a single stem. It grows 6 m high. It can be a small tree with a trunk 60 cm around. The leaves are 8-37 cm long by 5-14 cm wide. They are oval and leathery and dull. There are many flowers in a group. The flowers have a scent. The fruit are 8 mm across. They are red or orange. They turn purplish-black.
Corolla white, white tinged pink or white with pink lobe tips; tube 3.7–6 cm × 1–2 mm, slender, glabrous or minutely puberulous outside; lobes 8–9 × 2–3.2 mm, elliptic-oblong, usually with some hairs inside.
Shrub or shrubby tree 1.8–8 m tall (with long virgate branches fide Gossweiler); leaves and branches glabrous.
Fruits red or orange-red, sometimes becoming purplish-black (fide Milne-Redhead), about 8 mm in diameter.
Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, puberulous; limb-tube c. 0.5 mm with triangular lobes up to 1.5 mm long.
Corolla white, with the lobes pink at the tips
The pollen presenter arms 2–3 mm long.
Terminal corymbs of flowers
Style exserted up to 5 mm.
A shrub, 10-20 ft. high
Anthers 6 mm long.
Flowers scented.
Fruits red
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.05 - 6.1
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in swamp forest and damp locations in West Africa. In southern Africa it grows between 1,200-1,500 m altitude.
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In swamps and other moist situations.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food medicinal
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 120
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Ixora brachypoda world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, and Zambia

Conservation status

Ixora brachypoda threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:753776-1
WFO ID wfo-0000218234
COL ID 3QGVN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ixora radiata Ixora rhodesiaca Ixora brachypoda Ixora radiata var. latifolia