Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
6440.000 Jasminum - Jasmines
Description of the genus
Shrubs, often partly climbing or climbers. Leaves opposite, whorled or alternate, simple or compound. Domatia sometimes present in the axils of lateral nerves on the lower leaf surface. Inflorescences few-many flowered, cymose or solitary. Flowers scented. Calyx with cup-shaped tube and 5-15 teeth. Corolla white or yellow, salver-shaped with 5-13 lobes. Fruit a deeply 2-lobed, 2-seeded berry. Derivation of name: from ysmyn, the Arabic name for the genus. Worldwide: 200 species, mainly tropical, with a few temperate. Zimbabwe: 14 cultivated taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| azoricum L. | |
| beesianum Forrest & Diels | |
| fluminense Vell. | Description, Image |
| fruticans L. | Description |
| grandiflorum L. | |
| humile L. | |
| laurifolium Roxb. ex Hornem. var. laurifolium | |
| mesnyi Hance | Description, Image |
| multiflorum (Burm. f.) Andrews | |
| multipartitum Hochst. | Description, Image |
| nudiflorum Lindl. | |
| officinale L. | |
| polyanthum Franch. | Image |
| sambac (L.) Aiton |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): JasminumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Jasminum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Jasminum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Jasminum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Jasminum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Jasminum
JSTOR Plant Science: Jasminum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Jasminum
Plants of the World Online: Jasminum
Tropicos: Jasminum
Wikipedia: Jasminum