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Jasminum breviflorum [family OLEACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Jasminum breviflorum [family OLEACEAE]
Common names
J. gerrardii Harv. ex C. H. Wr., I.e. (1906). Syntypes: Natal, Nonoti River, Gerrard 1477; Camper-down, Rehmann 7706.
Information
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, someÂtimes 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, us
Habitat
In this species the calyx is almost truncate or shortly lobed. When present the lobes are rather thick and conduplicate and usually have a recurved apicule but are not produced into an erect subulate apical portion. Among the simple leaved species in South Africa, /. streptopus (see No. 10) has calyx-lobes intermediate between those of J. breviflorum and those which are produced into long subulate lobes as, for instance, in /. multipartitum (see No. 8).
Use
6. Jasminum breviflorum Harv. ex C.H. Wr. in F.C. 4, 1: 480 (1906); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 564 and PI. 7, 617 (1956); I.e. 7: 15 (1958). Type: Pretoria, Magaliesberg, Burke s.n. (K, lecto.).
Range
Found in semi-shade in dry scrub and open woodland. Recorded from the eastern Cape, Natal, the Transvaal and Portuguese East Africa.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Jasminum breviflorum [family OLEACEAE]
Common names
J. gerrardii Harv. ex C. H. Wr., I.e. (1906). Syntypes: Natal, Nonoti River, Gerrard 1477; Camper-down, Rehmann 7706.
Information
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, someÂtimes 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, us
Habitat
In this species the calyx is almost truncate or shortly lobed. When present the lobes are rather thick and conduplicate and usually have a recurved apicule but are not produced into an erect subulate apical portion. Among the simple leaved species in South Africa, /. streptopus (see No. 10) has calyx-lobes intermediate between those of J. breviflorum and those which are produced into long subulate lobes as, for instance, in /. multipartitum (see No. 8).
Use
6. Jasminum breviflorum Harv. ex C.H. Wr. in F.C. 4, 1: 480 (1906); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 564 and PI. 7, 617 (1956); I.e. 7: 15 (1958). Type: Pretoria, Magaliesberg, Burke s.n. (K, lecto.).
Range
Found in semi-shade in dry scrub and open woodland. Recorded from the eastern Cape, Natal, the Transvaal and Portuguese East Africa.
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