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Jasminum fluminense Vell.

Jasmin; Brazilian jasmine; Jazmin de trapo; River Jasmine

Oleaceae · Nigeria, Sierra Leone +24

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
9.0°C
Record low 4.1 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Jan, Feb and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
652mm
7 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
30–39DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes May to September (November to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Jasminum fluminense is a species of vine plant.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Jasminum fluminense", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Jasminum

Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Jasmine", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (492 mm of 632 mm) falls in November to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.9 °C against a yearly mean of 22.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: May to September.

Rain

632 mm in the median year at the habitat, 492 mm of it November to March. Wettest month January at 114 mm, driest months (2 at 8 mm). Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 474 mm to 1,111 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 652 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 632 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 30 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 9.0 °C, the absolute minimum 4.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.6 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 11.3 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 8.7 °C to 18.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.8 °C in January and December (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 9.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 53 to 59% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +31 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Jasminum fluminense through the yearWarmest months January, February and December, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 11.3 °C; 632 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°50°40.6° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER4.1° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 30–39RH 53–59%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 145 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C30 / 25–3130 / 26–3129 / 26–3128 / 25–3026 / 24–2824 / 22–2724 / 22–2726 / 23–2828 / 25–3229 / 25–3429 / 24–3330 / 24–32
Night °C20 / 14–2320 / 15–2319 / 16–2217 / 15–2114 / 13–2112 / 10–2011 / 9–1813 / 11–1816 / 13–2018 / 15–2119 / 15–2220 / 15–23
Rain mm114 / 37–176103 / 28–15983 / 55–13541 / 18–17313 / 2–1128 / 1–378 / 0–3010 / 0–3216 / 1–3844 / 15–12389 / 49–138103 / 77–152
DLI39 / 36–4138 / 36–4236 / 32–4135 / 28–3832 / 25–3530 / 23–3430 / 24–3433 / 27–3837 / 32–4338 / 32–4636 / 34–4438 / 35–43
RH %59 / 56–6459 / 54–6359 / 54–6358 / 50–6456 / 45–6454 / 45–6253 / 44–6153 / 41–6153 / 39–6155 / 43–6157 / 49–6459 / 54–63
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 145 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (208 records in those cells; 1 more cell holds records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cell is left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2299:4231 (-24.975, 31.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 4.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 145 distinct grid cells holding 208 of the 209 in-range records (1 further cell with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2299:4231 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -25.00_31.875, lapse-corrected +31 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 287 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNigeria, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Namibia, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, Saudi Arabia, Yemen · introduced: Mauritius, Tuamotu, Marianas, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-25.125, 31.625 · in the densest population, 148 records (30% of those in range)
Kew's description“climber” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 496 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 208 of them in the land cells it reads, of 209 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 337 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 31 km away. 842 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 287 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 496 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Patrick Jackson, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Luis Ángel Niño Barreat, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Cyphostemma subciliatum Cyphostemma subciliatum Vitaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedDichrostachys cinerea Dichrostachys cinerea Aroma Photo: CC BY, Devendra Kumar GurjarTricliceras schinzii Tricliceras schinzii Lion's Eyes Photo: CC BY, Shedron MukhumoColeus lasianthus Coleus lasianthus Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, rosshawkinsCeropegia nilotica Ceropegia nilotica Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, B Pulman005Justicia aconitiflora Justicia aconitiflora Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Elena_Sherehora

Other Jasminum 27 in the reference

Jasminum angulare Jasminum angulare Oleaceae Photo: CC0, rosshawkinsJasminum annamense Jasminum annamense Oleaceae Photo: CC BY, Eugene PopovJasminum auriculatum Jasminum auriculatum Indian hasmine Photo: CC0, author not statedJasminum azoricum Jasminum azoricum Lemon-scented jasmine Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeJasminum beesianum Jasminum beesianum Red jasmine Photo: CC0, author not statedJasminum dichotomum Jasminum dichotomum Gold Coast jasmine Photo: CC0, author not statedJasminum didymum Jasminum didymum Desert jasmine Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyJasminum dispermum Jasminum dispermum Oleaceae Photo: CC BY, luluchouetteJasminum elongatum Jasminum elongatum Common Malayan jasmine Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioJasminum grandiflorum Jasminum grandiflorum Catalonian jasmine Photo: CC BY, Jacky JudasJasminum laurifolium Jasminum laurifolium Oleaceae Photo: CC BY, Nizar JibrinJasminum malabaricum Jasminum malabaricum Malabar jasmine Photo: CC0, author not stated all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Jasminum azoricum var. fluminense; Jasminum bahiense var. fluminense; Jasminum rooseveltii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Oleaceae
Described by
Vell.
Native to
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Burundi +23
Wild records
496 in range · 337 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 43 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (37 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -25.00_31.875, lapse-corrected +31 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 81 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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