Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:9. 1762
Verified:
09/30/2011
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
Catalonian jasmine – royal jasmine – Spanish jasmine – French
jasmin à grandes fleurs – German
chinesischer Tee-Jasmin – India
chambel – Portuguese (Brazil)
jasmim-dos-poetas – jasmim-espanhol – jasmim-italiano – jasmim-real – Swedish
luktjasmin – Transcribed Chinese
su xin hua –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Djibouti | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Eritrea | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Ethiopia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Somalia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Sudan | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Rwanda | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Arabian Peninsula | Oman | Al Batinah North | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Arabian Peninsula | Saudi Arabia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Arabian Peninsula | Yemen | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Himachal Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Jammu and Kashmir | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Pakistan | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | Northern Africa | Algeria | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | Northern Africa | Egypt | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | Northern Africa | Morocco | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Italy | | |
2 | Cultivated | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | occasionally natzd. in tropics |
Native
Africa
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Uganda
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Rwanda
Asia-Temperate
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ARABIAN PENINSULA:
Oman [Al Batinah North], Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India [Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir], Pakistan
Cultivated
Africa
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NORTHERN AFRICA:
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
Europe
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Italy
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
France
Naturalized
(occasionally natzd. in tropics)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986-2000. European garden flora. |
Environmental | ornamental | | Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova. |
Food additives | flavoring | for "jasmine tea" | Green, P. & D. Miller. 2009. The genus Jasminum in cultivation 21. |
Materials | essential oils | | Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:114-117. |
Materials | essential oils | used in perfumery | Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=407300.
Accessed 10 May 2025.