Jasminum abyssinicum R.Br.

Shrub, usually with profuse and high climbing branches; ultimate branchlets long, terete, ascending, minutely puberulous (in South African specimens). Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles patently spreading with apex only ascending, 1.5-3.3 cm long, minutely puberulous; petiolules of lateral leaflets 1-6 mm long, of the terminal 10-20 mm long; leaflets broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, often shortly acuminate at the apex, the terminal usually 2.5-7.5 cm long and 2-4.5 cm broad, glabrous (in South African specimens), acarodomatia, when present, in axils of central and upper as well as basal veins on the lower surface. Inflorescence terminal and lateral in the axils of the leaves, cymose-paniculate, lax (in South African specimens), the branches minutely puberulous; pedicels varying in length on the same inflorescence, from 4 mm (in terminal flowers) to 15 mm (on lateral flowers), puberulous. Calyx campanulate, puberulous, about 3 mm long, shortly 5-6-toothed; teeth 0.5-1 mm long with wide sinuses between. Corolla white, suffused reddish purple without; tube about 2.2 cm long; lobes 5-6, about 1 cm long and 6 mm broad. Stamens inserted in upper half of the corolla tube; filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers included, 5 mm long, apiculate, apicule about 1 mm long. Ovary subquadrate, about 1.5 mm long and broad; style long, terete; stigma 2-lobed, lobes oblong-sub-cylindrical in outline, about 4 mm long. Fruit a twin berry, one often aborting, sub-globose, about 1 cm diam.

A tropical plant. It grows in mountain forest. In Malawi it grows between 1,500-2,450 m altitude. It can grow to 3,000 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.

The root is boiled and eaten. They are used in soup.