Jasminum quinatum Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Oleaceae > Jasminum

Characteristics

Sub-shrubs with erect or straggling stems about 40 cm long from a creeping rhizome. Twigs ridged or angled, glabrous or thinly to densely pubescent with straight or crisped hairs. Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, sometimes 3-, 4-or 7-foliolate; petiole flattened, 1.5-5 mm long, rarely up to 12 mm long; leaflets with the central the largest, 12-40 mm long, and 2-9 mm broad, rarely larger, the lateral smaller and the outermost still smaller, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent with straight or crisped hairs, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, apiculate at the apex, cuneate at the base into a petiolule-like claw, claw varying in length, that of the central leaf usually the longest, up to 5 mm long, rarely longer. Inflorescence terminal, sometimes also axillary in the upper pair of leaves, cymes 1-to 3-flowered, the terminal and axillary forming what appears to be a subcorymbose inflorescence; peduncle 0 to 20 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; pedicels 3-12 mm long, of some lateral 1-flowered cymes from axils of upper leaves up to 20 mm long, glabrous or pubescent. Calyx glabrous, tube about 2.5 mm long, 5-6 toothed, teeth somewhat unequal, 1-2.5 mm long, rarely up to 3 mm long, triangular with margins folded inwards, sometimes conduplicate, apiculate, sinuses U-shaped. Corolla white, tube 18-22 mm long, 5-6-lobed; lobes 10-12 mm long and about 4 mm broad. Stamens apiculate, included in the plants with long-styled flowers and sub-exserted in plants with short styled flowers. Ovary quadrate, about 1.5 mm long; style 2-lobed, lobes 3 mm long, short or eventually e x serted. Fruit twin berries, often only 1 developing, globose, about 5 mm diam.
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Straggling subshrub, 450 mm tall. Leaves usually digi-tately 5-7-foliolate, sometimes 3-foliolate, leaflets more than twice as long as broad. Flowers white.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.43 - 0.53
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 4-7
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.
Mode cuttings
Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Jasminum quinatum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:609725-1
WFO ID wfo-0000813366
COL ID 3QMPS
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Synonyms

Jasminum quinatum Jasminum lupinifolium