Ixora jucunda
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Ixora
Species:	I. jucunda
Binomial name
Ixora jucunda Thwaites

Ixora jucunda is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Large, oval to lanceolate, acute ends.

Branchlets stout with nodal thickenings.

White or pink, sweet-scented, calyx often red; Inflorescenece - large cymes.

Globose berry.

Rain forest understory of wet zone.

Ornamental.

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