Jasminum elongatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Jasminum elongatum (Bergius) Willd.

Protologue: Sp. pl. 1: 37 (1797).

• Jasminum aemulum R.Br (1810),
• Jasminum bifarium Wallich ex G. Don (1837),
• Jasminum pubescens sensu Backer (1931) non (Retz.) Willd.,
• Jasminum multiflorum sensu Bakhuizen f. (1950) non (Burm. f.) Andr.

• Indonesia: pancasuda (Javanese), malati leuweung (Sundanese), gambir hutan (general)
• Malaysia: melor hutan, pekan hutan, pekan jantan (Peninsular)
• Philippines: manol (Central Bisaya), sampagitang-gubat (Tagalog)
• Thailand: mali som, malulee (Bangkok), mali luei (central).

South-East Asia, occurring from India to Australia, and to southern China. Common throughout the Malesian region, and present on almost all islands.

In Malaysia a decoction of the root is administered after childbirth and as a febrifuge, and an infusion against yaws. A poultice of leaves is applied to relieve headache and vertigo, and ague in children. In the Philippines, a decoction of the root is used externally for scurvy, and as a gargle for inflamed gums. In Indonesia the leaves are used in a mixture to reduce fever. A decoction of the leaves can be used to cure intestinal complaints and kidney stones. An infusion of the leaves can be used to treat catarrh of the bladder.

• A slender, erect or climbing shrub up to 2 m tall, glabrous or subpubescent, with distinctly annular nodes and short opposite branches.
• Leaves 1-foliolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, 3-10 cm × 1.5-5 cm, chartaceous, base rounded or truncate, apex acuminate, round or truncate, with pinnate venation, veins glabrous or midrib pubescent, petiole 3-7(-10) mm long.
• Inflorescence a sub-capitate cyme with (1-)6-9(-15) flowers, subsessile, supported by foliaceous bracts.
• Flowers with a campanulate calyx tube 1.5-2 mm long, with 5-7 subulate teeth 1-4(-7) mm long, usually pubescent, corolla tube 10-25 mm long with 6-9 narrow ovate-oblong lobes 6-15 mm × 2-4 mm, apiculate, white.
• Fruit a 2-lobed berry, black.

J. elongatum is very common in open or disturbed primary and secondary forest and forest fringes from sea-level up to about 1500 m altitude and occasionally up to 3000 m, e.g. on Mount Kinabalu.

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