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*''Ixora montana'' Lour. (1790), *''Ixora grandiflora'' Loddiges (1819).

*A shrub with many stems, up to 3 m tall, glabrous; leaves .*Leaves ovate to oblong or obovate, 3.5-10 cm × 2-5 cm, coriaceous, base subcordate or rounded, apex obtuse or slightly acuminate, mucronate, with 8-15 secondary veins, petiole absent or short, stipules long-awned; inflorescence .*Inflorescence sessile, densely corymb-shaped; flowers .*Flowers with triangular calyx lobes, about 3 mm long, acute, red, corolla tube 3-4.5 cm long, lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, acute, orange to scarlet or white, yellow or pink (mostly in cultivated plants), not fragrant, style 3-4 mm exserted, red; fruit .*Fruit globose, about the size of a pea, reddish, fleshy.  ''I. coccinea'' is cultivated in lowland areas but also at higher elevations.