• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ixora elongata B.Heyne ex G.Don
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in forests of Western Ghats; elevation 750-1200 m.
• Key identification features : Leaf elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers pink, in long-peduncled brachiate corymbose cymes. Drupe faintly 2-lobed, black when ripe
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collection Nos : HFP 127, HFP 2659
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ixora elongata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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