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This species is characterized by its robust habit; its large, rather narrowly elliptic, petiolate, coriaceous leaves that are sharply acuminate at the apex and usually dry with a dark brown color and the venation not very evident; its congested, pedunculate, several- to many-flowered inflorescences with developed bracts; its sessile to pedicellate flowers with triangular calyx lobes and long, pink to red corollas with the tube 18-23 cm long; and its medium-sized fruits. It has been confused with Ixora siphonantha, with thinner-textured leaves and lax inflorescences. De Block (2007) noted that although the pollinators have not been observed, this species is certainly pollinated by hawkmoths.
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