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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Gelsemium
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=150. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Gelsemiaceae;Gelsemium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gelsemiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gelsemium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Italian gelsemino, from Persian-Arabic yāsamīn, jasmine, probably alluding to similarity of flowers
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems:</b> internodes glabrous, puberulent, or retrorsely scabridulous, nodes glabrous to antrorsely short-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipular colleters linear, 1–4 on each side of petiole base. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers solitary or in reduced, simple cymes, pedicellate; bracteoles lanceolate, ovate, or deltate, proximal usually with single linear colleter at base on each side. <b>Flowers</b> fragrant or not; sepals lanceolate, ovate, or oblong, apex acuminate, obtuse, or rounded; corolla yellow to orange, lobe apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate [acuminate]; stamens inserted at base to middle of tube; filaments glabrous; anthers connivent or separate, sagittate; styles glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> elliptic to oblong, dehiscence septicidal into 4 segments. <b>Seeds</b> ovate [elliptic to reniform], wings absent or unilateral [circumferential]. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=e United States;Mexico;Central America;e Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial leaf surface with small patch of spreading trichomes at extreme base; sepals acuminate; distal 1/2 of pedicels ebracteolate; seeds not winged; capsule beak 2.4–4.2 mm; flowers usually not fragrant.
|[[Gelsemium rankinii|Gelsemium rankinii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial leaf surface glabrous or slightly scabridulous at base; sepals obtuse to narrowly rounded; distal 1/2 of pedicels bracteolate; seeds with unilateral wing; capsule beak 1–2 mm; flowers usually fragrant.
|[[Gelsemium sempervirens|Gelsemium sempervirens]]
|}
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name=Gelsemium
|authority=Jussieu
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Gelsemiaceae
|distribution=e United States;Mexico;Central America;e Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_247.xml
|genus=Gelsemium
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