Ixora baileyana

Ixora baileyana is a species of flowering plant in the coffee and gardenia family Rubiaceae, first described in 1987. It is found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia.

Description

Ixora baileyana is a shrub to about tall with leaves that are either stemless or have very short petioles. There are interpetiolar stipules about long, and the leaves are generally broader towards the apex with an acute tip and an obtuse base. They can reach in length and in width, with between 9 and 14 pairs of lateral veins.
Small scented flowers are produced in clusters in the and are more or less sessile. They are tubular and have four recurved lobes about long. They have four stamens, of which only the tips reach beyond the corolla lobes, and a slightly longer style. The ovary has four locules and the stigma has four spreading lobes.
The fruit are 4-locular drupes, red in colour, more or less spherical, and about diameter. The calyx persists at the apex of the fruit. They contain one pale brown seed per locule, measuring about long.

Distribution and habitat

This plant is endemic to a small part of northeastern Queensland, where it grows as an understory plant in coastal and sub-coastal rainforests. It ranges from Cape Tribulation in the north to about Mission Beach in the south, at altitudes from sea level to about.

Conservation

This species is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act., it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.