Jasminum tortuosum Willd.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Oleaceae > Jasminum

Characteristics

Twiner or scrambler with branches angled in parts, the ultimate usuauy hirsute in parts; hairs white, crisped. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole hirsute especially along the upper surface, about 5-10 mm, rarely 2 cm long; blade glabrous and without acarodomatia, 1.7-4 cm long and 0.5-1.4 cm broad (rarely larger, 4-5 x 2 cm); acute or broadly rounded at apex, mucronate, cuneate at base into a petiolule, central petiolule the longest; midrib prominent below and running into the petiolule at the base. Inflorescence glabrous, terminal on the branches and on the lateral branchlets, and axillary in axils of the upper pair of leaves only, 3-5-flowered, peduncle 1-2.5 cm long; pedicels 1-1.5 cm long (rarely 2 cm long). Calyx usually 5-lobed, sometimes 6, 2.5-5.5 mm long; lobes from much shorter than the tube to about as long as the tube, 1-2.5 mm long, triangular, acuminate, conduplicate, apiculate, sinuses U-shaped. Corolla white, usually 6-lobed, tube 1.5-2.7 cm long; lobes up to 1.2 cm long, 5 mm broad. Fruit not seen.
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Like J. angulare but leaflets linear-lanceolate, without acarodomatia. Flowers 3-5 in cymes, 6-lobed, white.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Antifungal agents (flower), Sinus (unspecified), Fistula (unspecified), Ringworm (unspecified)
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Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Images

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Distribution

Jasminum tortuosum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:609826-1
WFO ID wfo-0000822436
COL ID 3QMSV
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Synonyms

Jasminum tortuosum Jasminum mucronatum Jasminum campanulatum Jasminum flexile Jasminum tortuosum var. campanulatum