AusTraits

Jasminum elongatum

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Jasminum elongatum (Bergius) Willd.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Jasminum aemulum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum R.Br. f. aemulum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum R.Br. var. aemulum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum f. interstans Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum var. brassii P.S.Green (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum var. genuinum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum var. glaberrima Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum aemulum var. glaberrimum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jasminum forstenii Blume (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nyctanthes elongata Bergius (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2004 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Hyland_2003 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (21), NHNSW_2016 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 70 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4851 mm2 (4851-4851 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 58.33 mm (30-120 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 29.75 mm (19-50 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (3); shrub (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (2) [sources: Hyland_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Cooper_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 170 mg (170-170 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 8.83 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6 m (2-10 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011821R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_201622National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Cooper_200411W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest. Nokomis Editions, 2004. ISBN: 9780958174213.
Hyland_200311B. P. M. Hyland, T. Whiffin, D. Christophel, B. Gray, and R. W. Elick. Australian tropical rain forest plants trees, shrubs and vines. CSIRO Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0643068724.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.