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Jasminum multipartitum [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 multipartitum [family OLEACEAE]
Common names
J. glaucum sensu Harv. ex Wright, I.e., partly; — var. parviflorum E. Mey., Coram. 173 (1837); DC, Prodr. 8: 305 (1844). Type: Albany, Bothasberg, Drege s.n.
Information
Shrub 45 cm to 3 m tall, sometimes scandent, twiggy; twigs puberulous, usually short about 2 cm long. Leaves simple, usually glabrous and without acarodomatia, suberect> shining, green, often drying blackish and brittle, very variable in size and shape, someÂtimes aborted or very small on the flowering twigs, oblong, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 1 - 5-3 • 5 cm long (usually about 2 • 5 cm long) 4-28 mm broad (usually about 9 mm broad), rounded or sometimes acuminate and acute at apex, rounded at base and abruptly narrowed into a petiolule-like base; petiole glabrous or minutely puberulous appearing articulated in the centre or above or below, 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence terminal on short lateral twigs, usually 1-flowered, rarely 3-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 1-5 mm long, glabrous or rarely minutely puberulous. Calyx glabrous or rarely minutely puberulous in parts; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 5-9, margins inrolled, appearing subulate with wide sinuses between them, 3-5 mm long sometimes minutely puberulous at least on margins. Corolla white, pink-flushed or lobes dorsally brick red, fragrant; tube 2-3 cm long; lobes about 11, more or less 1 -7 cm long and 4 cm broad. Stamens inserted on the tube in upper half, included, or sub-exserted in short styled flowers; filaments about 1-3 mm long; anthers 3-5 mm long, apiculate. Ovary 2 mm long quadrate, truncate; style 2-lobed at apex, included or eventually exserted in long styled flowers, lobes oblong about 2 mm long. Fruit a twin berry joined at base only, but often only one half developin", oblong to oblong-globose, slightly compressed, about 1-1 ? 5 cm long, 8-10 mm broad and 4 mm thick, green, shiny, turning black when ripe.
Habitat
In South Africa this species has quite a wide distribution and it is often found cultivated in gardens. It is characterised by the usually single flower on a rather short pedicel (under 1 cm. long) at the end of short slender lateral twigs which are characteristically shortly and densely puberulous. The leaves on these twigs are usually young or stunted, smaller than those on the sterile branches and they frequently dry black and brittle giving the herbarium specimens a characteristic appearance. The flowers are heterostylous; all the flowers on certain plants are short styled and on others long styled.
Use
8. Jasminum multipartitum Hochst. in Flora 27, 2: 825 (1844); De Wildeman, Ic. Sel. Hort. Then. 4: t.134 (1903); Wood & Evans, Natal PI. 4: t. 328 (1906); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 480 (1906); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 567 and PI. 9, 619 (1956). Type: Durban, Krauss 458 (K, holo.; PRE, photo.).
Range
Found in dry regions, on rocky slopes and boulder-strewn koppies, in woods or scrub bush. Recorded plentifully from Uitenhage north-eastwards through the eastern Cape, Swaziland, and central and eastern Transvaal to 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 multipartitum [family OLEACEAE]
Common names
J. glaucum sensu Harv. ex Wright, I.e., partly; — var. parviflorum E. Mey., Coram. 173 (1837); DC, Prodr. 8: 305 (1844). Type: Albany, Bothasberg, Drege s.n.
Information
Shrub 45 cm to 3 m tall, sometimes scandent, twiggy; twigs puberulous, usually short about 2 cm long. Leaves simple, usually glabrous and without acarodomatia, suberect> shining, green, often drying blackish and brittle, very variable in size and shape, someÂtimes aborted or very small on the flowering twigs, oblong, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 1 - 5-3 • 5 cm long (usually about 2 • 5 cm long) 4-28 mm broad (usually about 9 mm broad), rounded or sometimes acuminate and acute at apex, rounded at base and abruptly narrowed into a petiolule-like base; petiole glabrous or minutely puberulous appearing articulated in the centre or above or below, 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence terminal on short lateral twigs, usually 1-flowered, rarely 3-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 1-5 mm long, glabrous or rarely minutely puberulous. Calyx glabrous or rarely minutely puberulous in parts; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 5-9, margins inrolled, appearing subulate with wide sinuses between them, 3-5 mm long sometimes minutely puberulous at least on margins. Corolla white, pink-flushed or lobes dorsally brick red, fragrant; tube 2-3 cm long; lobes about 11, more or less 1 -7 cm long and 4 cm broad. Stamens inserted on the tube in upper half, included, or sub-exserted in short styled flowers; filaments about 1-3 mm long; anthers 3-5 mm long, apiculate. Ovary 2 mm long quadrate, truncate; style 2-lobed at apex, included or eventually exserted in long styled flowers, lobes oblong about 2 mm long. Fruit a twin berry joined at base only, but often only one half developin", oblong to oblong-globose, slightly compressed, about 1-1 ? 5 cm long, 8-10 mm broad and 4 mm thick, green, shiny, turning black when ripe.
Habitat
In South Africa this species has quite a wide distribution and it is often found cultivated in gardens. It is characterised by the usually single flower on a rather short pedicel (under 1 cm. long) at the end of short slender lateral twigs which are characteristically shortly and densely puberulous. The leaves on these twigs are usually young or stunted, smaller than those on the sterile branches and they frequently dry black and brittle giving the herbarium specimens a characteristic appearance. The flowers are heterostylous; all the flowers on certain plants are short styled and on others long styled.
Use
8. Jasminum multipartitum Hochst. in Flora 27, 2: 825 (1844); De Wildeman, Ic. Sel. Hort. Then. 4: t.134 (1903); Wood & Evans, Natal PI. 4: t. 328 (1906); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 480 (1906); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 567 and PI. 9, 619 (1956). Type: Durban, Krauss 458 (K, holo.; PRE, photo.).
Range
Found in dry regions, on rocky slopes and boulder-strewn koppies, in woods or scrub bush. Recorded plentifully from Uitenhage north-eastwards through the eastern Cape, Swaziland, and central and eastern Transvaal to Portuguese East Africa.
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