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Jasminum virgatum

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Identification
Jasminum virgatum Kerr [family OLEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for JASMINUM stolzeanum Knobl. [family OLEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1952) Author: W. B. TURRILL
Names
JASMINUM stolzeanum Knobl. [family OLEACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 282 (1936); T.T.C.L. 391 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Kyimbila, Stolz 1890 (B, holo. †, K, iso. (?)!)
JASMINUM virgatum Knobl. [family OLEACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 283 (1938). Type: Tanganyika, Lindi District, Milola valley near Lake Lutamba, Schlieben 5965 (B.M. iso.!). A variant with smaller leaves and slightly more developed calyx lobes.
Information
A climbing or shortly scrambling shrub, the ultimate branches slender, pubescent, the older branches glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite; blades narrowly elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or ovate-oblong, acuminate or the smaller ones obtuse, widely ranging in size even on the same branch, up to 5.2 cm. long and 1.8 cm. broad, midrib and main lateral veins very slightly impressed on upper and prominent on lower surface, scattered hairs on upper surface and on the midrib and main veins on the lower surface; petiole 1–2 mm. long, densely pubescent, articulated, though not conspicuously, near the top. Inflorescences terminal to short lateral branches, 1–6-flowered; pedicels 7–10 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so. Calyx glabrous or with a few scattered hairs and marginally ciliated lobes, narrowly campanulate; lobes oblong or triangular-oblong, acute, up to 2 mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. broad. Corolla white; tube 1.8–2.4 cm. long; lobes 1.1–2 cm. long, 1 mm. broad.
Range
DISTR. T7, 8 endemic in southern Tanganyika
Altitude range
270-700 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Mwasukulu forest, about 15 km. SE. of Kyimbila, Febr. 1913, Stolz 1890!
Notes
There are some discrepancies between the flower measurements given in the original description of J. stolzeanum and those taken from the Kew specimen.

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