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Taxon: Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton

Genus: Jasminum
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Jasmineae.
Nomen number: 20676
Place of publication: Hort. kew. 1:8. 1789
Name verified on: 24-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Aug-1996
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • Arabian jasmine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • mo li hua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • jasmin d'Arabie   (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
  • bogarim   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • jasmim   (Source: Portuguese Dict ) – Portuguese
  • jazmín de Arabia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India [e.]
    Indo-China: Myanmar

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon) [mentions].
  • Edições Melhoramentes. 1979. Pietzschke, F., ed.
  • Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
  • Green, P. S. 1965. Arnoldia (Jamaica Plain) 25:71.
  • Green, P. S. 1965. Studies in the genus Jasminum III: the species in North America. Baileya 13:157.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. (Flower Oils)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Jasminum sambac cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20676 (09 February 2010)

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