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This species is characterized by its medium-sized to rather small tough-textured leaves, rather well developed stipule aristas, cymose inflorescences with about five to fifteen flowers, flower buds that are narrowed but obtuse at the apex, and red corollas with tubes 8-12 mm long. The leaf form is notably variable, as described in the protologue. The leaves are variously ovate, subsessile, and rounded to cordulate at the base, as in the type collection, to petiolate, elliptic, and rounded to obtuse at the base as in one of the paratype collections. Ixora intropilosa has a relatively more xerophytic aspect and higher-elevation habitat than most Ixora species.
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