Ixora parviflora

• Botanical Name : Ixora parviflora Lam.
• Common Name : White Ixora, Naveri, Kuraat, Torch Tree, Rai-Kudd
• Plant Family : Rubiaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 28
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Ixora parviflora Plant :

• Habit : A small shrub, unarmed and evergreen.
• Leaves : Opposite or ternate, coriaceous, oblong or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, base cordate, stipules interpetiolar.
• Flowers :
  • White, fragrant,  many, in big, sub-globose clusters of sessile cymes of 3-5 pairs of short branches, pedicels very short, flower-buds ellipsoid, lower bracts broad and pointed, upper ones lanceolate, connected by a stipule-like membrane across the nodes, bracteoles minute.
  • Calyx-tube ovoid-oblong, small, teeth 4, small, triangular.
  • Corolla white, salver-shaped, tube less than one inch long, slender, lobes 4, reflexed, linear-oblong, obtuse, not hairy at the throat.
  • Stamens 4, sessile, epipetalous, anthers linear alternate with corolla-lobes.
  • Ovary inferior 2-celled, ovule one in each cell, style hairy, stigma bifid.
• Fruit : Two pyrenes.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : January - April
• Significance : Planted in gardens.