Jasminum dichotomum Vahl

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Aruwimi River, Basoko, DRCongo

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Synonyms:	Jasminum brevipes Baker Jasminum bukobense Gilg Jasminum gardeniodorum Gilg Jasminum gossweileri Gilg & G.Schellenb. Jasminum guineense G.Don Jasminum mathildae Chiov. Jasminum noctiflorum Afzel. Jasminum tenuifolium Baker Jasminum ternum Knobl. Mogorium dichotomum (Vahl) Poir.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Scrambling shrub with stiff, straight branches climbing up to 8 m high. Leaves simple, often more or less 3-whorled, narrowly ovate-elliptic, 2.3-6.5 cm long, thinly leathery, hairless, glossy bright green above; petiole 8-10 mm long. Inforescences terminal and axillary, densely corymbose, hairless. Calyx with a tube 2-3 mm long and 5-6 very short triangular teeth, hairless. Corolla white inside, pinkish-brown ourtside; tube 14-23 mm long; lobes 6-9, elliptic, 7-10 mm long. fruit 1-2-lobed with lobes elliptic, c. 1 cm long when dry.
Type location:	Guinea
Notes:	Records from Mozambique are not well documented and its status is uncertain.
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Habitat:	In riverine fringes.
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Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in Tropical Africa as far as Angola, Zambia, Malawi and possibly Mozambique.
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Images last updated:	Thursday 23 September 2021
Literature:	Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Oleaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 310 - 311. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 169. 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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