Ixora chinensis Lam.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 149

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Ixora chinensis Lam.
status

 

Ixora chinensis Lam.

Names.

Myanmar: pon-na-yeik. English: Chinese ixora.

Range.

Malay Peninsula and China. In Myanmar found in Yangon.

Uses.

Flower: Used to treat tuberculosis and hemorrhage.

Notes.

In China the plant is used as an anodyne and resolvent; for abscesses, bruises, extravasated blood, rheumatism, wounds; also considered beneficial to bone marrow and the uterus of pregnant women ( Duke and Ayensu 1985).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Rubiaceae

Genus

Ixora