Ixora chinensis Lam., Encycl. 3:344. 1789
Common name: Chinese ixora
The species is differentiated by elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate leaves up to 12 cm long, narrowed to rounded basem subsessile at base; flowers yellowish to red, corolla tube 2.5 cm long, corolla lobes obtuse.
Photographed from Punjabi Bagh Nursery, Delhi in August, 2009
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