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Daphne jasminea Sm.

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'Daphne jasminea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daphne/daphne-jasminea/). Accessed 2025-06-14.

Family

  • Thymelaeaceae

Genus

Glossary

synonym
(syn.) (botanical) An alternative or former name for a taxon usually considered to be invalid (often given in brackets). Synonyms arise when a taxon has been described more than once (the prior name usually being the one accepted as correct) or if an article of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature has been contravened requiring the publishing of a new name. Developments in taxonomic thought may be reflected in an increasing list of synonyms as generic or specific concepts change over time.
variety
(var.) Taxonomic rank (varietas) grouping variants of a species with relatively minor differentiation in a few characters but occurring as recognisable populations. Often loosely used for rare minor variants more usefully ranked as forms.

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

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'Daphne jasminea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daphne/daphne-jasminea/). Accessed 2025-06-14.

Daphne jasminea

Daphne jasminea growing on a tufa wall at RBG Edinburgh, UK (20 September 2015). Image Julian Sutton.

This species has recently been introduced to cultivation. It is a gnarled shrublet inhabiting rock-faces and stony places in parts of S. Greece (W. Euboea and Mt Parnassus) and has nothing to do with the D. jasminea of Grisebach, nor with the D. oleoides var. jasminea of Meissner, both of which are forms merely of D. oleoides [but note that POWO (21/5/2025) contradicts Bean, citing Meissner’s variety as a homotypic synonym of D. jasminea Sm.]. For an account of D. jasminea by Brian Mathews see Bull.A.G.S., Vol. 35, Sept. 1967, pp. 199–200.

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