Support NLAM   Find NLAM on Facebook  

Jaati (Species 1)

Common Names


Jaati (Bhavprakash Nighantu), (Satyavati. et. al.), Jai (Vd. Daji Pade., W.G.), (FM 3:183), Jaayo.

About    Taxonomy


Click to access the GRIN database record about the specific taxonomical hierarchy (Family, Genus etc.).

CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Jasminum officinale L.

FAMILY 


Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

SUBTRIBE


Jasmineae

GENUS 


Jasminum L.

SPECIES


officinale L. Sp. pl. 1:7. 1753


Plant Description


Climber , grows at a height of 12 to 20 feet. Feeble stem often requires support. Branchlets terete or angular and grooved. Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely whorled, simple, 3-foliolate, or odd-pinnate; petiole usually articulated. Inflorescences basically cymose, in panicles, racemes, corymbs, umbels, or heads; bracts subulate or linear, sometimes leafy. Flowers bisexual, usually heterostylous, usually fragrant. Calyx campanulate, cupular, or funnelform, 4-16-lobed. Corolla white or yellow, rarely red or purple, salverform or funnelform; lobes 4-16, imbricate in bud, sometimes doubled in cultivation. Stamens 2, included, inserted about middle of corolla tube; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed, introrse. Ovules 1 or 2 in each locule. Style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit a berry, didymous or one half aborted. Seeds without endosperm; radicle downward.

Flowering & Frt. : June to September.

 

*Description source: Flora of Savantwadi

STUDIES & RESEARCH