Ixora hiernii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gentianales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Gentianales

Ixora hiernii Scott Elliot, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 30: 82 (1894); as 'Ixora Hiernii'

Typus: G.F. Scott Elliot 4596 (26 January [1892]; holotypus: BM; isotypi: GH 00898262^(JSTOR), K [K000411836^(JSTOR)], P [P00553421^(JSTOR)]).
Type locality: Sierra Leone. Beside streams in dense bush on Mount Kofiu (near Scarcies).

Ixora sp. non déterminé sensu Pobég., Ess. Fl. Guin. Fr.: 310 (1906)
Ixora genre radiata sensu Pobég., Ess. Fl. Guin. Fr.: 312 (1906), pro parte, excl. Pobéguin 269
- Note: vide De Block (1998: 108).

Ixora breviflora auct. non Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 3: 165 (1877) [= Ixora guineensis Benth.]: Hutch. & Dalziel, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. 2: 89 (1931), pro parte, excl. Mann 315 [lectotype of I. breviflora, collected in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea; K {K000411814^(JSTOR), K000411815^(JSTOR)}] et Mildbraed 6391 [type of I. carniflora K.Krause, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54(4): 354 (1917); collected in Bioko in August 1911; holotypus: B, destroyed; isotypi: HBG {HBG521541^(JSTOR)], HBG521542^(JSTOR)]}, WAG.1311254]
- Note: vide Hepper & Keay (1963), De Block (1998: 104, 108).

Native distribution areas:
Africa West Tropical Africa Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo West-Central Tropical Africa Congo References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Scott Elliot, G.F. 1894. On the Botanical Results of the Sierra Leone Boundary Commision. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 30(206): 64–100. BHL Reference page.

Pobéguin, H. 1906. Essai sur la flore de la Guinée Française: produits forestiers, agricoles et industriels. Paris: Challamel. Reference page.
Hutchinson, J. & Dalziel, J.M. 1931–1936. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Vol. 2. Crown Agents for the Colonies, London. Google Books. Reference page.
Hepper, F.N. & Keay, R.W.J. 1963. Rubiaceae. In: Hepper, F.N. (ed.), Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2. 544 pp. London, United Kingdom: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Adiministrations, pp. 104–223. Reference page. [see this entry.]
De Block, P. 1998. The African Species of Ixora (Rubiaceae-Pavetteae). Opera Botanica Belgica 9: 1–218. ISBN 9789072619372 Google Books. Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Ixora hiernii in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 June 2. Reference page.