Jasminum breviflorum Harv.

Climber, usually rampant, occasionally shrubby; twigs densely or sparsely pubescent with patent crisped hairs or short stiff hairs, glabrescent. Leaves simple, variable in shape and size, lanceolate-oblong, lanceolate-ovate, ovate to ovate-suborbicular, up to 4.5 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, usually smaller, pubescent on both surfaces, especially along the veins beneath, glabrescent in parts, sometimes glabrous; petiole short, up to 3 mm long, pubescent, articulated at or above the middle, often at the apex, articulation not obvious. Inflorescence terminal on the twigs, usually 3-flowered and often also with solitary flowers in the axils of the upper pair of leaves; pedicels long, up to 1.5 cm long, densely or thinly pubescent to glabrous. Calyx thinly pubescent, rarely densely, sometimes glabrescent; tube about 3 mm long; lobes usually 5, very shallow (calyx appearing truncate), or up to 2 mm long and thickened and conduplicate, usually with recurved apicule but not produced into a subulate erect apical portion. Corolla white, fragrant, tube 1.5-2 cm long (in eastern Cape up to 3 cm long); lobes about 7, usually 1-2 cm long and 2.5-5 mm broad. Stamens 51 mmserted on the tube in upper half, included, filaments very short; anthers about 3.5 mm long. Ovary about 1 mm long, truncate, 2-celled with 1 ovule in each; style filiform 1.5 cm long; stigma lobes 3.5 mm long; exserted. Fruit a twin berry but usually only one developing, subglobose, about the size of a large pea, turning black when ripe; seed 1, exendospermous.