Ixora bartlingii Elmer, LPB

Ordas, Jorge Anton D., Pinarok, Neil Alejandro A., Romeroso, Roanne B., Alejandro, Grecebio Jonathan D. & Banag-Moran, Cecilia I., 2019, A checklist of Rubiaceae species from Eastern Samar, Visayas, Philippines, Check List 15 (2), pp. 295-312 : 303

Ixora bartlingii Elmer, LPB 3 (1911) 1020.

Materials examined. Table 2. Fig. 3E

Small tree about 4 m high. Leaves elliptic to oblong, 20–25 × 7–10 cm, membranous. Inflorescences terminal, pendulous, trichotomously branched. Calyx shortly tri- angular. Corolla white, lobes 4–6 mm, tube 10–15 mm. Fruits globose, 5–7 mm in diameter, red to pink.

This endemic species is widely distributed across the archipelago. It is easily distinguished from other Ixora species in the study area by its terminal, pendulous, red inflorescences.