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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Jasminum calophyllum - Wall. & G.Don.
Family
Oleaceae
Common Name
Sayali, White Jasmine
Habit
Shrub
Synonym
Jasminum courtallense Wight.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Flowers white, lateral leaflets more than half of the terminal one.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Bicarpellatae
 
Order :
Gentianales
Plant Description

A beautiful, scandent shrub; leaves opposite, sometimes alternate, 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet large, laterals small but more than half of the terminal one; leaflets broadly ovate, obtuse or sometimes acute, base rounded, truncate or subcordate, glabrous, membranous, shining, 3-nerved; flowers pure white in axillary or terminal,10-50 flowered, lax, trichotomous, minutely pubescent cymes; pedicels very short; bracts minute; calyx sub-truncate, glabrous; corolla salver shaped, tube long, about 2 cm, lobes 5-9, elliptic, obtuse; stamens-2, included in corolla tube, filaments very short, anthers oblong; ovary 2-celled, ovule 2 in each, style short, stigmas 2, linear.

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