Jasminum mesnyi Hance

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Ndundu Lodge, Vumba

Synonyms:	Jasminum primulinum Hemsl.
Common names:	Primrose jasmine (English)
Description:	Dense, dark green, evergreen, sprawling shrub to 3 m tall, bearing many curving and descending, glabrous, 4-angled branches. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate, present at flowering time; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, sessile. Flowers 3-4.5 cm wide, solitary in the axils, bright yellow with darker eye, subtended by leaf-like bracts. Calyx lobes leafy, lanceolate, and longer than the tube. Corolla lobes obovate-spathulate, longer than the tube.
Notes:	Very commonly cultivated in gardens in Zimbabwe.
Derivation of specific name:	mesnyi: after general William Mesny, 1842-1919, British adventurer, Lieutenant-General in the Chinese army, writer and plant collector.
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Worldwide distribution:	China and Vietnam.
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Jasminum mesnyi
African Plant Database: Jasminum mesnyi
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Jasminum mesnyi
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Jasminum mesnyi
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