*Jasminum humile**, L.*
Yellow Jasmine is a small *erect much-branched shrub*, growing to 1 m or more tall, commonly found in the Himalayan region. It has green, angular branches. *Leaves are pinnate with 3-7 ovate to lancelike leathery leaflets*. *The last leaflet is somewhat larger*. *Inflorescences are lax clusters of yellow tubular flowers at the end of branches*. *Flowers have a slender tube, 1-2 cm long*, with 5 rounded spreading petals, about 6 mm. Sepal tube is cup shaped, only 3 mm in size, with tiny triangular sepals. Fruit is black berry, 8 mm in size, with crimson juice. *Jasminum bignoniaceum G.Don*** *Climber with flexuous glabrous stems*. *Leaves opposite or subopposite, simple*; lamina 3·2–7·2 x 2–4·5 cm., *ovate*, glabrous (or very sparsely pilose) except for lanate acarodomatia in axils of main nerves on lower leaf face. Petioles 3–5 mm. long, articulated above the middle, pubescent on upper surface. *Inflorescences 1–3 (–more?)–flowered, 1–2 (more?) cm. long, borne on main stems in leaf axils*; axes pilose; bracts present, represented by a range of reduced leaves; pedicels (fruiting) c. 3 mm. long. *Calyx tube c. 2 mm. long*; lobes?6, 2–3 mm. long, each folded longitudinally and curved outwards. Fruit with lobes subglobose, c. 8 mm. long. (Difference is denoted by coloured letters) Description of *Jasminum humile* adopted from FOI (http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Yellow%20Jasmine.html) Description of *Jasminum bignoniaceum* adopted from JSTOR Plant Science; Taxon description, FZ, Vol 7 Part 1, page 300 (1983) Author: F. K. Kupicha*. * (http://plants.jstor.org/taxon/Jasminum.bignoniaceum) Tanay On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Promila ji > Jasminum humile has pinnate and not bipinnate leaves. Jasminum bignoniaceum > growing wild in South Indian Hills was formerly inclucluded as synonym of J. > humile but recently recognised as independent species, with some new > varieities also recognised especially from Sri Lanka. > > Tanay it would be interesting to know differentiating features of J. humile > s. str. and J. bignoniaceum. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:35 PM, promila chaturvedi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Samir Ji, >> the leaves of Jasminum humile are bibipinnate and on secondary twig it has >> ony three leaves. My biggest drawback is that I am not a botanist, therefore >> cannot give you the dtailed description of leaf and twig structure. >> Regards, >> Promila >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:53 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Jasminum bignoniaceum *!! >>> >>> Tanay >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:14 PM, promila chaturvedi < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Jasmine humile blooms in spring and the formation of it's leaves is also >>>> different. >>>> Promila >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Selvalakshmi Selvaraj < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> The correct new name is *Jasminum bignoniaceum* Wall. ex A. DC. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Selvalakshmi S. >>>>> Doctoral Scholar, >>>>> Bharathiar University, >>>>> Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tanay Bose >>> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >>> 9830439691(Mobile) >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile)
