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Jasminum Linn., Sp. Pl. 7. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 7. 1754; C.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 591. 1882; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. ed. 3. 314. 1956.
Shrubs, climbing, twining, or erect. Leaves opposite, or alternate, simple or imparipinnate. Flowers attractive, frequently fragrant, cymes tri-or dichotomous, simple, or flowers solitary. Calyx 4-9-fid, teeth linear, long or short, or almost truncate. Corolla 1 cm in diameter or more, salver-shaped, white or yellow, tube narrow; lobes (4-)5-9(-10), patent, imbricate in bud. Flowers often heterostylous. Berry didymous or simple (by abortion); each part globose, ellipsoid or elongated, containing 1-2 seeds; cultivated species frequently without berries.
Species c. 300, distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical Eurasia, Africa, Pacific. Representeh by 14 wild or cultivated species in Pakistan.
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Leaves compound, trifoliolate or pinnate |
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Leaves simple |
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2 (1) |
Leaves alternate, flowers yellow |
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Leaves opposite, flowers white or yellow |
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3 (2) |
The whole plant glabrous |
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Branches, leaves and calyx teeth pubsecent |
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Jasminum humile forma pubigerum |
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4 (3) |
Leaflets usually 3-5. Flowers scentless. Plants
wild, with berries. Occasionally cultivated |
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Jasminum humile |
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Leaflets usually 5-7. Flowers fragrant. Plants sterile. Cultivated |
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Jasminum humile cultivar ‘revolutum’ |
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5 (2) |
Flowers yellow. Leaves trifoliolate |
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Jasminum mesnyi |
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Flowers white. Leaves trifoliolate or pinnate |
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Calyx teeth minute |
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Calyx teeth nearly as long as the corolla tube, 5-15 mm long |
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7 (6) |
Leaves grey-pubescent; lateral leaflets much reduced or lacking |
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Jasminum auriculatum |
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Leaves glabrous or glabrate, green; lateral leaflets well developed but not always as long as the terminal |
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8 (7) |
Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets ovate, not coriaceous |
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Jasminum azoricum |
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Leaves trifoliolate or pinnate; leaflets cordate or
subcordate to lanceolate, coriaceous |
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Jasminum dispermum |
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Inflorescence subumbellate; corolla tube 15-17 mm long, the lobes 9-12 mm long, 5-8 mm broad. Common, wild |
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Jasminum officinale |
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Inflorescence cymose; pedicels of subsequent flowers exceeding the first and the central ones; corolla tube 15-23 mm long, the lobes 15-20 mm long, 8-14 mm broad. Cultivated |
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Jasminum grandiflorum |
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10 (1) |
Entire plant glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, shining |
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Jasminum cuspidatum |
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Plant pubescent, at least the calyx. Leaves not
Coriaceous |
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Calyx teeth 0-3(-4) mm long |
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Calyx teeth 5 mm and longer |
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12 (11) |
Calyx almost truncate, teeth less than 1 mm long.
Leaves sometimes with 2 small, stipulelike lateral
leaflets |
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Jasminum auriculatum |
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Calyx teeth usually longer than 1 mm. Leaves never trifoliolate |
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13 (12) |
Leaves up to 6 cm long, velvety tomentose on both
Sides; petiole up to 1 cm long |
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Jasminum roxburghianum |
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Leaves up to 18 cm long, pubescent when young, later
glabrescent; petiole 1-2.5 cm long |
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14 (13) |
Shrub not twining |
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Jasminum arborescens |
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Shrub twining. leaves unusually large |
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Jasminum latifolium |
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Flowers in few-flowered terminal cymes, fragrant, often double, not tinged with red outside. Leaves elliptic or broad-elliptic to suborbicular, sometimes in whorls or 3; acute leaves with ± cuneate base |
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Jasminum sambac |
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Flowers in dense terminal or axillary cymes or single, fragrant or not, sometimes tinged with red outside. Leaves ovate, usually acuminate, base truncate to cordate |
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Flowers fragrant; cymes sometimes axillary or on dwarf Lateral branchlets. Calyx fulvous-villous, teeth almost as long as the corolla tube. Frequently cultivated |
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Jasminum multiflorum |
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Flowers scentless; cymes terminal, Calyx pubescent, teeth of about half the length of the corolla tube. Rarely cultivated |
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Jasminum amplexicaule |
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