Jasminum glaucum (L.F.) Aiton

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Oleaceae > Jasminum

Characteristics

Shrubs, rarely scandent, glabrous in all parts. Leaves simple, glaucous, usually about 3 times as long as broad, lanceolate, lanceolate-elliptic, lanceolate-ovate, slightly narrowed to a rounded mucronate apex, or acute, sometimes long-acuminate, 3-6.5 cm long, 0.7-2.5 cm broad, narrowing gradually to the 3-(or more)nerved base and then abruptly narrowed into a petiolule-like basal portion; petiole short, 1-5 mm long but with the cuneate leaf-base appearing about 1 cm long, articulate at the apex but articulation often appearing to be about midway, depending on the length of the leaf-base. Inflorescence terminal on ultimate branchlets, occasionally also in axils of upper pair of leaves, normally 3-flowered; bracts setaceous, usually about 1 cm long; pedicels 3-12 mm long. Calyx with usually 5-7 subulate lobes; lobes as long as or longer than the tube, sinuses rounded. Corolla white, fragrant; tube usually 2-2.5 cm long; lobes 15-20 cm number, 1.7-2.5 cm long, up to 5 mm broad. Fruit black, a twin berry, one often aborted.
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Glaucous shrub. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic. Flowers usually 3 in cymes, 5-7-lobed, white, fragrant.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 6-8
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Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Jasminum glaucum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:609592-1
WFO ID wfo-0000813871
COL ID 3QMHJ
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Synonyms

Jasminum glaucum Jasminum ligustrifolium Jasminum myrtifolium Nyctanthes glauca Jasminum rivulare Mogorium myrtifolium Jasminum glaucum var. rivulare Jasminum glaucum var. lanceolatum Jasminum glaucum var. latifolium