Jasminum didymum

Jasminum didymum
	Jasminum didymum subsp. racemosum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Oleaceae
Genus:	Jasminum
Species:	J. didymum
Binomial name
	Jasminum didymum; G.Forst.

Jasminum didymum is a species of scrambling vine or low shrub. It is native to insular Southeast Asia from Java to the Philippines, as well as Australia (Northern Territory, Norfolk Island, and all states except Tasmania), as well as some islands in the Pacific (New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia and the Society Islands).^[1] Jasminum didymum occurs naturally in habitats from rainforests to arid and semi-arid shrublands.^[2]

Subspecies

Jasminum didymum is highly variable in leaf shape and habit and is subdivided into 3 subspecies based on these characteristics:^[1]

Jasminum didymum subsp. didymum - wide natural distribution
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.S.Green^[3] - Mainland Australia
Jasminum didymum subsp. racemosum (F.Muell.) P.S.Green^[3] - Queensland only

'Jasminum' is a Latinized form of the Arabic word, 'yasemin' for sweetly scented plants.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
^ Forster, Johann Georg Adam. 1786. Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus 3, Jasminum didymum.
^ ^a ^b Green, Peter Shaw. 1984. Allertonia 3: 411-412.
^ Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). pp 220

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