Australian Tropical Rainforest - Online edition Jasminum didymum subsp. racemosum (F.Muell.) P.S.Green Family: Green, P.S. (1984) Allertonia 3 : 411. Common name: , Native; Native Jasmine Stem Usually grows into a slender woody vine, but can also flower and fruit as a shrub. Leaves Leaf blades about 2.5-5.5 x 0.7-1.1 cm. Middle leaflet blade and stalk of the middle leaflet longer than the corresponding parts of the lateral leaflets. Flowers Flowers strongly but pleasantly perfumed. Calyx lobes small and inconspicuous. Corolla lobes about 2.5-4 mm long, tube about 4.5-9 mm long. Anthers linear, about 3-4 mm long, filaments about 0.5-1 mm long. Style about 2.5-4.5 mm long. Stigma bilobed, about 1-2 mm long. Fruit Inflorescence and flowers. © A. Ford & F. Goulter Fruits orbicular, about 8 mm diam. Seeds about 7 x 5-6 mm. Seedlings Cataphylls (2-4 alternate) sometimes produced before the first pair of true leaves. First pair of true leaves simple, about 10-12 x 6-7 mm, or trifoliolate with the middle leaflet about 10-15 x 3-5 mm. Upper and lower leaflet surfaces clothed in short hairs. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves trifoliolate, the middle leaflet ovate, much larger than the elliptic lateral leaflets, leaflets three-veined towards the base, lateral veins two to four on each side of the midrib, midrib depressed on the upper surface. Terminal bud, stem and petiole clothed in short, erect, pale hairs which are visible with a lens. Leaves and fruit. © A. Ford & F. Distribution and Ecology Goulter Occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards to south-eastern . Altitudinal range in northern from near sea level to 350-850 m. Grows in monsoon forest and vine thickets, but is also found in woodland and similar sparsely vegetated habitats. Also occurs in . Synonyms Jasminum racemosum F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1: 19(1858), Type: In silvis Araucariarum pone sinum Moreton Bay. Hill and Mueller. Holo: K. RFK Code 2513 Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO

Cotyledon and 1st leaf stage, hypogeal germination. © CSIRO Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved.

10th leaf stage. © CSIRO

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