• Family : OLEACEAE
  (OLIVE FAMILY OR JASMINE FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Oleaceae
• Species : Jasminum flexile
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Jasminum flexile Vahl
• Vernacular name : Oosimalligai, Perumalli (Tam.)
• Key identification features : A large climbing shrub, glabrous. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate, membraneous, glabrous; terminal leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 7-11 x 3.5-6 cm, cuneate, rounded to truncate at base, acuminate and shortly mucronate at apex. Flowers are white, in terminal or axillary, lax panicled cymes. Bracts are linear, with calyx tube upro 2 mm long, 5-lobed and minute. Corolla is white, pink outside in the bud up to 2 xm long tube and 6-lobed, half as long as tube. Berry is black, ellipsoid.
• Habit : Climbing Shrub
• Flower, Fruit : June-March
• Comments : Occasional in hill forests of Eastern Ghats.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district) (Tamil Nadu State); Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district) (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Jasminum flexile. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.

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