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Jasminum gerrardii Harv. ex C.H. Wright Jasminum kirkii Baker Jasminum swynnertonii S. Moore Jasminum transvaalensis S. Moore Jasminum walleri Baker |
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Small shrub often with slender trailing or twining climbing stems up to 1.5 m long, growing from a woody rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves opposite, simple, obovate-elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 1-5 cm long, pointed at the apex, dull green, fairly thinly textured, usually hairy on both surfaces, hairy pockets present in the axils of the main veins; margin entire. Flowers terminal on short lateral branches, solitary or several together, very sweetly scented. Corolla creamy-white; tube 13-26 mm long; lobes 6-9, linear to narrowly elliptic, 8-18 mm long. Fruit with 2 subglobose lobes, 5-8 mm long, black when ripe. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. |
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Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 764. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 34. As Jasminum streptopus streptopus Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 267. Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Oleaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 315 - 317. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 65. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 82. |
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