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Botanical Name: Jasminum grandiflorum
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Family: Oleaceae
Common Name: चमेली
Etymology - Genus: Latinized form of Persian name
Etymology - Species: With large flowers
Ecosystem: Evergreen
Origin: Native
Location: Garden plant
Description: This is a garden plant with dense, spreading branches. Young branches are smooth, glabrous.Compound imparipinate (odd pinna) leaf, arranged opposite and superposed.Odd no of leaflets, with terminal leaflets almost attached to reach other with a leafy web.A textbook polychasial inflorescence with presence of leafy bract. White flowers blossom in the evening and fade by morning. Characteristic very pleasant fragrance.Free linear calyx. Petals fused into a narrow tube with 5 board, white petals. Two stamens and stigma are completely covered in the petal tube. Style is very short.Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Straggler
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: This is a garden plant with dense, spreading branches. Young branches are smooth, glabrous.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Unipinnate-Imparipinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Compound imparipinate (odd pinna) leaf, arranged opposite and superposed.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases: Oblique
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Odd no of leaflets, with terminal leaflets almost attached to reach other with a leafy web.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Polychasial
Bract: Foliaceous
Inflorescence Description: A textbook polychasial inflorescence with presence of leafy bract.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: White flowers blossom in the evening and fade by morning. Characteristic very pleasant fragrance.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Linear
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Rotate
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 2
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Syncarpous
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 2
Floral Parts Description: Free linear calyx. Petals fused into a narrow tube with 5 board, white petals. Two stamens and stigma are completely covered in the petal tube. Style is very short.
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Fruit type Description: Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
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