Jasminum beesianum Forrest & Diels

Low scrambling or climbing shrub. Stems glabrous or puberulent, angular, stoloniferous. Lvs opposite, simple, entire; petiole 1–4 mm long. Lamina 1.5–4.5–(5) × 0.5–1.5–(3) cm, lanceolate to ovate, usually hairy, especially on veins below, rarely glabrous; base broad-cuneate or rounded; apex acute or mucronate. Cymes terminal on short lateral shoots, 1–3-flowered; pedicels 5–17 mm long, not slender. Calyx 7–9 mm long, glabrous; tube c. 2 mm long; lobes aristate or setose. Corolla deep pink or almost crimson; tube 1–1.2 cm long, funnelform; lobes c. 5 mm long, elliptic, hairy in throat, ciliolate, with rounded apices. Style nearly = tube. Mature berry not seen, globose, black.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jul.–Apr.