Jasminum streptopus E. Mey.

Selected images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record View all images (9)

Jasminum streptopus

Picture: Bart Wursten
La Rochelle, kopje behind hotel

Jasminum streptopus

Picture: Bart Wursten
La Rochelle, kopje behind hotel

Specimen citations: Display citations Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps

Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)

Synonyms: Jasminum gerrardii Harv. ex C.H. Wright
Jasminum kirkii Baker
Jasminum swynnertonii S. Moore
Jasminum transvaalensis S. Moore
Jasminum walleri Baker
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
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.
Type location:
South Africa
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat: In scrub and woodland often on termite mounds.
Altitude range:
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): B,N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Nw,N,E,C,S
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters: Display spot characters for this species
Content last updated: Sunday 4 March 2012
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.

Other sources of information about Jasminum streptopus:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Jasminum streptopus
Flora of Malawi: Jasminum streptopus
Flora of Mozambique: Jasminum streptopus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Jasminum streptopus

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Jasminum streptopus
African Plant Database: Jasminum streptopus
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Jasminum streptopus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Jasminum streptopus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Jasminum streptopus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Jasminum streptopus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Jasminum streptopus
JSTOR Plant Science: Jasminum streptopus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Jasminum streptopus
Plants of the World Online: Jasminum streptopus
Tropicos: Jasminum streptopus
Wikipedia: Jasminum streptopus


Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Jasminum streptopus.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144250, retrieved 28 March 2024

Site software last modified: 10 May 2018 10:51pm
Terms of use