Low jasmine

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Low jasmine
Branch with leaves and flowers

Branch with leaves and flowers

Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Tribe : Jasmineae
Genre : Jasminum
Type : Low jasmine
Scientific name
Jasminum humile
L.

The low jasmine or yellow jasmine ( Jasminum humile ) is a shrub belonging to the olive family (Oleaceae). The distribution area is in Central to East Asia. The species is sometimes used as an ornamental plant because of its flowers. According to E. Banfi (2014), the species is better placed than Chrysojasminum humile (L.) Banfi in the genus Chrysojasminum .

description

Flowers and leaves

The low jasmine is an evergreen , slightly climbing, 0.3 to 3 meter high shrub with slightly angular, green branches. The leaves are alternate on stems 0.5 to 2 centimeters long. The leaf blade is simple or composed of three to nine, but usually 5 leaflets. The leaflets are ovate to lanceolate, but rarely obovate, blunt or pointed with a rounded or wedge-shaped base. The terminal leaflet is 0.6 to 6.0 inches long and 0.2 to 2.0 inches wide, the lateral ones are 0.2 to 4.5 inches long and 0.2 to 2.0 inches wide. The upper side of the leaf is dull green, the underside is slightly lighter. Two to four pairs of nerves are formed per leaflet.

The flowers are in groups of one to ten, rarely up to 15 in umbel-like inflorescences. The individual flowers grow on stems that are 0.2 to 3.0 centimeters long. The calyx is shorter than the corolla tube and ends in triangular to awl lobes. The corolla is yellow, almost funnel-shaped with a corolla tube 0.8 to 1.6 centimeters long and rounded to elliptical lobes 3 to 7 millimeters long.

When ripe, purple-black, elliptical to rounded, 6 to 11 millimeters long and 4 to 10 millimeters wide berries are formed.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26, less often 39.

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area of ​​the low jasmine is in temperate Asia in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Guizhou , Sichuan , Xizang and Yunnan ; in tropical Asia in Bhutan, North India, Nepal and Pakistan. It grows in steppes and dry forests at an altitude of 1100 to 3800 meters on fresh, slightly acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, moderately nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is only moderately frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The low jasmine ( Jasminum humile ) is a species from the section Alternifolia , genus Jasminum , which is assigned to the tribe Jasmineae, family Oleaceae . The species was first scientifically described by Carl von Linné in his work Species Plantarum in 1753 .

A distinction is made between two varieties

  • Jasminum humile var. Humile with pointed or tapered leaflets
  • Jasminum humile var. Microphyllum (LC Chia) PS Green with blunt leaflets

use

The low jasmine is sometimes used as an ornamental plant because of its decorative flowers.

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 355.
  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 310 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German names after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
  2. ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Chrysojasminum humile. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d Liguo Fu, Nan Li, Thomas S. Elias, Robert R. Mill: Jasminum humile . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 310 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 355
  5. ↑ Jasminum humile at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  6. ↑ a b Jasminum humile. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 4, 2012 .

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