• 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 notoniana Wall. ex G.Don
• Vernacular name : Pachaipira (Tamil); Iramburippi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m in sholas.
• Flower, Fruit : July-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
• 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 notoniana. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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