Jasminum suavissimum

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Jasminum suavissimum Lindl.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Jasminum dianthifolia Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
Jasminum dianthifolium Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
Jasminum simplicifolium subsp. suavissimum (Lindl.) P.S.Green (nomenclatural synonym)
Jasminum tenuifolium Regel (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (60). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 94 records in 9 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (2-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.1-0.3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); shrub (3); subshrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (3) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (4) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 57.11 mg (57.11-57.11 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	60	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	13	18	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.