Nice Colored Variety Sir On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> *Ixora coccinea* f.* lutea* (Hutch.) Fosberg & Sachet, Baileya 23 (2): > 79, 1989 > syn: *Ixora lutea* (Hutch.) > > Evergreen shrub up to 1.3 m tall; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, up to > 10 cm long, cordate or slightly amplexicaule at baseobtuse or mucronate, > lateral veins 8-15 pairs; flowers yellows (in this form) in 5-10 cm wide > corymbose cymes on very short peduncle; pedicel almost absent; bracts 6-8 > mm long; calyx teeth minute, corolla tube 25-40 mm long, lobes 8-10 mm > long, acute; stamens 4 with short filaments, anthers falling early; style > exserted; fruit globose, red when ripe. > > The species is widely cultivated and comes in a variety of colours but > can be easily recognised by its smaller habit, sessile almost clasping > oblong leaves baring reaching 10 cm, and flowers with corolla lobes usually > less than 10 mm long. This yellow variety (now relegated to form) earlier > uploaded by me as var. flava (which does not seem to have been a published > name) has wider corolla lobes than typical and more fuller flowers. > > Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
