Jasminum L.

Type species: Jasminum officinale L.

Synonyms (links to GRIN): Jacksonia, Jasminium, Mogorium, Noldeanthus, Nyctanthes

Distribution: Africa, Asia, Australia, South Pacific Islands, one species in the Mediterranean region

Number of species: over 200

Description (from Flora of China): Trees or erect or scandent shrubs, evergreen or deciduous. Branchlets terete or angular and grooved. Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely whorled, simple, 3-foliolate, or odd-pinnate; petiole usually articulated. Inflorescences basically cymose, in panicles, racemes, corymbs, umbels, or heads; bracts subulate or linear, sometimes leafy. Flowers bisexual, usually heterostylous, usually fragrant. Calyx campanulate, cupular, or funnelform, 4-16-lobed. Corolla white or yellow, rarely red or purple, salverform or funnelform; lobes 4-16, imbricate in bud, sometimes doubled in cultivation. Stamens 2, included, inserted about middle of corolla tube; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed, introrse. Ovules 1 or 2 in each locule. Style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit a berry, didymous or one half aborted. Seeds without endosperm; radicle downward.

Links to species lists

• Species moved to Chrysojasminum
• Jasminum in Flora of China
• Jasminum extracted from the Flora Europaea database
• Jasminum extracted from the GRIN database
• Jasminum extracted from the BONAP (Biota of North America Program)
• Jasminum in the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) database
• Jasminum in Flora of Zimbabwe
• Jasminum in the Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar

Images

• My photos of Jasminum nudiflorum and J. mesnyi
• Jasminum dichotomum from Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
• Jasminum floridum from Desert Tropicals Home Page
• Jasminum leratii from Desert Tropicals Home Page
• Jasminum multiflorum from Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
• Jasminum multiflorum and Jasminum mesnyi from Gerald D. Carr at University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Jasminum nitidum from Desert Tropicals Home Page
• Jasminum polyanthum from Desert Tropicals Home Page
• Jasminum sambac from Desert Tropicals Home Page
• Jasminum sambac from Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

References

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• Green, P. S. 1961. Studies in the genus Jasminum I: section Alternifolia. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 23: 355-384.
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• Green, P. S. 1969. Studies in the genus Jasminum IV: The so-called New World species. Kew Bull. 23(2): 273-275.
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