Jasminum L.

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Oleaceae

• Scientific Name

  Jasminum L.

• Description

  Description - Erect or scandent shrubs or twining vines. Leaves opposite or less frequently alternate, simple or pinnately compound; petioles present; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, usually showy and fragrant, solitary, clustered in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles; calyx campanulate or infundibuliform, with 4-9 lobes; corolla hypocrateriform, with 4-9 imbricate lobes, the tube cylindrical; stamens 2, included in the tube; ovary superior, the style slender and elongate, the stigma bilobate or less frequently simple. Fruit a small berry. A genus of 450 species, native to Asia, Malasia. Africa, and Australia.