Jasminum subtriplinerve (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Jasminum subtriplinerve Blume

Protologue: Mus. bot. 1 : 272 (1851).

• Vietnam: dậy vằng, chè vằng, dậy cẩm vân.

Northern India, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

In Vietnam an infusion of the leaves is administered to women after childbirth. The dried young shoots are used in the treatment of lymphadenopathy, metritis, galactophoritis, leucorrhoea, rheumatism, ostalgia, impetigo, dysmenorrhoea and haematometra. A decoction of the fresh leaves is used to wash wounds and against skin problems; a poultice is used to treat ulcers and mastitis. In Laos, an extract of the pounded root is used to treat quotidian fever. The stem is used for wickerwork and binding.

• A straggling shrub, lax or ascendant, with slender branches up to 20 m long, glabrous.
• Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptical-lanceolate, 4-8 cm × 2-5 cm, with a round to obtuse base, apex acuminate, 3-veined, petiole 3-12 mm long, glabrous, articulate.
• Inflorescence an axillary or terminal cyme with up to 9 flowers.
• Flowers with a calyx tube 3 mm long, glabrous, calyx lobes 9, linear, up to 9 mm long, corolla tube 16-18 mm long, with 9 oblong and subobtuse lobes, 15 mm × 3-4 mm, with 3 veins, white, fragrant, anthers 5 mm long, not exserted, style short.
• Fruit a subglobose 1-seeded berry, 7-8 mm in diameter.

J. subtriplinerve occurs in rather humid forested areas. It may well be grown in similar habitats in the Malesiana region.

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• Jasminum (Medicinal plants)

• Joeni Setijo Rahajoe, R. Kiew & J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg