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Notes
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This species is characterized by its somewhat slender habit; its medium-sized to rather small, elliptic to oblanceolate, stiffly papery leaves with the venation reticulated and prominulous but not markedly colored; its pedunculate, several-flowered, branched inflorescences; its subsessile to shortly pedicellate flowers with a short calyx limb; relatively short white corollas with the tube 1-1.5 cm long and the apex obtuse in bud; and its medium-sized to somewhat small fruits. It is similar in general aspect to Ixora mangabensis, which has thinner-textured leaves with the tertiary venation closely reticulated and visible abaxially and usually quite darkened and its corolla buds acute at the apices. Modern collections of this species are all from a relatively small area, in littoral forest on sand substrates.
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