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Jasminum stenolobum [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 stenolobum [family OLEACEAE]
Information
A bushy or straggling shrub, sometimes scrambling or climbing; branches terete, pubescent, glabrescent; ultimate twigs 1-5 cm long, rarely longer, densely or persistently pubescent to tomentulose with spreading or reflexed hairs. Leaves very variable in size and shape, from ovate-lanceolate or elliptic to ovate or ovate-oblong, usually 1-4 cm long and 0-4-1-8 cm broad, pubescent on both surfaces, without acarodomatia; petioles pubescent, 3-8 mm long, articulated near the base (rarely higher up). Inflorescence terminal on short ultimate twigs, usually 1-flowered (occasionally 2-3-flowered); pedicels pubescent, usually short, 1-7 mm long, occasionally up to 1 cm long. Calyx pubescent pubescence variable, hairs short or long and curly; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 6-13, subulate with U-shaped sinuses, 2 • 5-6 mm long. Corolla white (buds red, fide Comins), fragrant; tube 2-2-5 cm long; lobes 7-12. 1-3-1-7 cm long, 3-5 mm broad. Stamens inserted in upper half of the tube, included, anthers up to 5 mm long, apiculate. Ovary subquadrate, compressed, about 2x1-5 mm; style 2-lobed at apex. Fruit a twin berry (one sometimes aborting), narrowly oblong, black, those seen about 1 cm long and 6 mm broad.
Habitat
In South Africa /. stenolobum is most like J. multipartitum from which it is mainly distinguished by the conspicuous pubescence on the twigs, leaves and calyx. The pubescence is mostly rather dense, tomentulose, with spreading or recurved, often crisped, hairs which vary somewhat in density and length. J. multipartitum on the other hand appears to be glabrous but is persistently, minutely and densely puberulous, at least on the twigs.
Use
9. Jasminum stenolobum Rolfe in Oates, Matabele Land, ed. 2: 403 (1889); Bak. in F.T.A. 4, 1: 4 (1902); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 481 (1907); Turrill in F.T.E.A. Oleaceae: 24 (1952); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 569 and PI. 10, 620 (1956). Type: Mata-beleland, Oates s.n. (K, holo.)
Range
Found in dry subtropical bush, often associated with rocks. Recorded from northern Natal, western and northern Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Ngamiland, the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa and Tanganyika.
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 stenolobum [family OLEACEAE]
Information
A bushy or straggling shrub, sometimes scrambling or climbing; branches terete, pubescent, glabrescent; ultimate twigs 1-5 cm long, rarely longer, densely or persistently pubescent to tomentulose with spreading or reflexed hairs. Leaves very variable in size and shape, from ovate-lanceolate or elliptic to ovate or ovate-oblong, usually 1-4 cm long and 0-4-1-8 cm broad, pubescent on both surfaces, without acarodomatia; petioles pubescent, 3-8 mm long, articulated near the base (rarely higher up). Inflorescence terminal on short ultimate twigs, usually 1-flowered (occasionally 2-3-flowered); pedicels pubescent, usually short, 1-7 mm long, occasionally up to 1 cm long. Calyx pubescent pubescence variable, hairs short or long and curly; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 6-13, subulate with U-shaped sinuses, 2 • 5-6 mm long. Corolla white (buds red, fide Comins), fragrant; tube 2-2-5 cm long; lobes 7-12. 1-3-1-7 cm long, 3-5 mm broad. Stamens inserted in upper half of the tube, included, anthers up to 5 mm long, apiculate. Ovary subquadrate, compressed, about 2x1-5 mm; style 2-lobed at apex. Fruit a twin berry (one sometimes aborting), narrowly oblong, black, those seen about 1 cm long and 6 mm broad.
Habitat
In South Africa /. stenolobum is most like J. multipartitum from which it is mainly distinguished by the conspicuous pubescence on the twigs, leaves and calyx. The pubescence is mostly rather dense, tomentulose, with spreading or recurved, often crisped, hairs which vary somewhat in density and length. J. multipartitum on the other hand appears to be glabrous but is persistently, minutely and densely puberulous, at least on the twigs.
Use
9. Jasminum stenolobum Rolfe in Oates, Matabele Land, ed. 2: 403 (1889); Bak. in F.T.A. 4, 1: 4 (1902); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 481 (1907); Turrill in F.T.E.A. Oleaceae: 24 (1952); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6: 569 and PI. 10, 620 (1956). Type: Mata-beleland, Oates s.n. (K, holo.)
Range
Found in dry subtropical bush, often associated with rocks. Recorded from northern Natal, western and northern Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Ngamiland, the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa and Tanganyika.
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