Taxon: Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton

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:

• Food additives: flavoring   (for "jasmine tea" fide Baileya 13:157. 1965; F China; Eur Gard F)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Wealth India RM 5:290. 1959; Flower Oils; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):319. 1999)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):319. 1999)
  

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Distributional range:

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

• 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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Synonyms:

• (≡) Nyctanthes sambac L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Nyctanthes undulata L.
  

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.
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