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Jasminum pauciflorum

Botanic Family

Oleaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Pamema (Teturi)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Wooded savanna
• thickets
• forest edge
• montane areas.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Nov

Climber or scandent shrub with pubescent branchlets. Leaves 75mm x 40mm pubescent beneath. Axillary & terminal cymes, sweetly scented white flowers calyx to 8mm long, tube to 2mm long with lobes to 7mm long, corolla tube 25mm long with 5-10 lobes 20mm x 2mm. Berry white turning black.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Talbot
• Kew