Entry for IXORA guineensis Benth. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
IXORA guineensisBenth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 414.
Information
Branches terete. Upper leaves oval-oblong, subacuminate, obtusely narrowed at the base, firmly chartaceous, of the same colour on the two surfaces, 6 by 2 1/2 in.; lateral veins about 6 pairs, slender, inconspicuous, margins flat; petiole 1/4 in.; stipules connate at the base. Flowers tetramerous, 2/3 in. long when expanded, very shortly pedicellate, several, in rather dense trichotomous terminal sessile panicles of 2 in. diam.; lower bracteoles pluri-setose from a short connate base, upper minute, subulate, at the base of the short pedicels. Calyx glabrous, 1/15 in. long; limb truncate, subentire. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse, 1/4 in. long, glabrous. Anthers exserted, 1/5 in. long. Style exserted to the length of the corolla-lobes, bilobed above.
