Travancore Jasmine is a vine with hairless stem.
White flowers are borne in cymes up to 15 cm long, at branch ends,
corymb-like, stalked. Bracts and bracteoles minute, subulate.
Flower tube is 3 cm long, petals 13 x 6 mm, oblong, blunt,
white with pink tinge. Flowers are many, on stalks 1.5 cm long.
Calyx is 3 mm long, truncate, hairless. Leaves are
trifoliate, with leaflets nearly equal, 10 x 5 cm, ovate-lanceshaped,
base rounded, tip long-pointed, hairless, acumen curved, lateral nerves
7 pairs. Leaflet stalks are unequal, middle stalk is up to 2.5 cm long,
laterals smaller. Berry is 10 x 5 mm, oblique-obovoid, black, glabrous.
Travancore Jasmine is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: October-March.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed on Sirsi - Jog Falls route, Karnataka.
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