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JaneR wrote:

20 Jun 2025

Hi Con, photo didn't arrive.

Unverified Climber or Mistletoe

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

16 Jun 2025

Sorry for the run around - doesn't look like the typical honeysuckle

Lonicera japonica

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

14 Jun 2025

I make out some flowers' calyces' lobes, much shorter than the calyces' tubes, and circa ≤ 1mm long.

Enough information to confirm this species and subspecies: _Jasminum simplicifolium_ subsp. _australiense_ .

For an example comparison and contrast with:
_Jasminum longipetalum_ growing naturally further north in CYP, which the botanical key and literature state has flowers' calyces' lobes ca. 4–5 mm long and longer than the flowers' calyces' tubes .

Furthermore shown here in this sighting:
• leaves uni-foliate, meaning with a joint within the petiole and singular leaves (not trifoliate).
• the petiole joint visible here, most clearly in some leaves just angled right for the photographs.
• includes, vine growth form .

As often occurs in some plants, in these forests areas, with, often, shade casting dense canopies;
these plants start living for years as a shrub in the shade of the forest;
when a forest shade gap opens up sunlight to them,
then they may 'take off' as vigorous vines into the canopy themselves,
as seen here in the photograph showing the flowering.

Hence these plants live, at once as both, shrubs (ground level lower parts) and vines (upper parts) .

Inspecting the flowering i noticed a small praying mantis ! – fun surprise for me looking hard at flowers – standing on top of one these cymes (inflorescences – structures of flowers).

References:

• Guymer, Gordon P. (2017)
Species of _Jasminum_
Via: KeyBase:
Flowering plants of Queensland
→ https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/6921
.

• Zich Frank A., Bernie P. M. Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A. Kerrigan (2020)
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'):
• _Jasminum simplicifolium_ subsp. _australiense_ P.S.Green fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/jasminum_simplicifolium_subsp._australiense.htm
• _Jasminum longipetalum_ King & Gamble: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/jasminum_longipetalum.htm
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/
.

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024)
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria
As _Jasminum volubile_ .

Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.:
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/shop/rainforest-plants-of-australia-2-0-mobile-app/

Computer (desktops and laptops) software:
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/
.

Jasminum simplicifolium subsp. australiense

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

14 Jun 2025

Kindly thank you !
I am looking into this again now .
Yes, these flowers, fruits and foliage of this one plant or population of plants and one species.

Jasminum simplicifolium subsp. australiense

Gaylesp8 wrote:

14 Jun 2025

Hi
Thanks for your identification, I have uploaded a couple more photos that could give some more visual information on the plant, the Purple Line-blue butterfly in one of the photos may give more indication of the size of the berries. I did not take any notes on it as I was more concentrating on the butterflies in this area. I thought it was a small tree/shrub but could well have been a vine. There was a white flowering plant in the same area that does look similar to Jasmine, that could have been the flower before the berries develop? I have included a photo of it as well. There was also lots of Green Ants in the area.

Jasminum simplicifolium subsp. australiense