• Family : OLEACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Oleaceae
• Species : Jasminum malabaricum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Jasminum malabaricum Wight
• Vernacular name : Mungara (San.); Yadorolu mallige (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : HFP 1562, CJS 16433
• Endemism : South-west India
• Key identification features : A large straggling shrub. Leaves are membranous, cordiform to deltoid-elliptic, glabrous. Base truncate or slightly cordate, entire, apex acuminate with main nerves of about 8 pairs. Flowers are white to creamy yellow, in terminal, trichotomous cymes, fragrant. Berries are oblong-globose, dark-purple or nearly black and shining.
• Habit : Climbing Shrub
• Native : India
• Comments : Frequent in forests
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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