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  • Ixora coccinea

    Ixora coccinea L. (RUBIACEAE) Common namesKannada & Tulu: Kepula.Malayalam: Thetti, Techi.Sanskrit: Bandhuka, Raktaka.Tamil: Sinduram, Thetti.Telugu: Koranan, Mankana. Description: A large shrub. Leaves opposite, oblong or elliptic, 5-10 x 3-6 cm, rounded or subcordate at base, obtuse or shortly acute at apex, coriaceous, pale when dry; main nerves 8-12 pairs. Flowers in dense sessile or very…

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  • Ixora brachiata Roxb

    Ixora brachiata Roxb. (RUBIACEAE) Common nameTulu: Koraji. Description: Small trees, 10-12 m tall with smooth grey bark. Leaves elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, 8-15 x 3-7 cm, attenuated or narrowed at base, obtuse at apex, pale when dry, glabrous; petiole, ca 2 cm long. Flowers in 9-10 cm long terminal trichotomously branched corymbose cymes, white, scented.…

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  • Ilex malabarica Beddome

    Ilex malabarica Beddome (AQUIFOLIACEAE) Description: Trees up to 12 m tall. Leaves elliptic- oblong, up to 14 x 4 cm, rounded at base, acute at apex, margin, entire or rarely toothed near apex. Male flowers in short panicles of umbels. Female flowers solitary or fascicled. Calyx usually 6-lobed, ciliolate. The corolla has 4-6 orbicular lobes,…

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