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Jasminum brevipes Baker Jasminum bukobense Gilg Jasminum gardeniodorum Gilg Jasminum gossweileri Gilg & G.Schellenb. Jasminum guineense G.Don Jasminum mathildae Chiov. Jasminum noctiflorum Afzel. Jasminum tenuifolium Baker Jasminum ternum Knobl. Mogorium dichotomum (Vahl) Poir. |
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Description: | Scrambling shrub with stiff, straight branches climbing up to 8 m high. Leaves simple, often more or less 3-whorled, narrowly ovate-elliptic, 2.3-6.5 cm long, thinly leathery, hairless, glossy bright green above; petiole 8-10 mm long. Inforescences terminal and axillary, densely corymbose, hairless. Calyx with a tube 2-3 mm long and 5-6 very short triangular teeth, hairless. Corolla white inside, pinkish-brown ourtside; tube 14-23 mm long; lobes 6-9, elliptic, 7-10 mm long. fruit 1-2-lobed with lobes elliptic, c. 1 cm long when dry. | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in Tropical Africa as far as Angola, Zambia, Malawi and possibly Mozambique. | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
Literature: |
Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Oleaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 310 - 311. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 82. |
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