Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gynochthodes jasminoides

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Tathra Forest Wildlife Reserve, near Tathra

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Fruiting stems. Photographer Don Wood, Bangalee Reserve near Nowra

Common name

Sweet Morinda, Jasmine Morinda, Morinda

Family

Rubiaceae

Where found

Forest and moist gullies. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Woody climber or scrambling shrub with stems to 6 m long. Fruit fleshy. Plants more or less hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 2–9 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, soft, tips with a long narrow point, 1-6 pit-like domatia on the lower surface (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone needed), domatia sometimes absent from some leaves. Flowers fragrant, all bisexual or sometimes some male flowers mixed with the bisexual flowers. Flowers white, yellowish, or purplish, tubular, the tube 2–6 mm long, with 3-4 lobes each 2–5 mm long. Flowers united at the base, in 3–20-flowered heads, on paired stalks. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit orange, irregularly shaped or round, 6–15 mm in diameter.

Was Morinda jasminoides.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gynochthodes~jasminoides  (accessed 19 January, 2021)