Family: Ranunculaceae
Clematis
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 543 (1753).
Derivation: Greek name of various climbing plants; Greek klematis, a shoot, tendril.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Old marts beard, clematis.
Description:
Woody climbers or perennial herbs; leaves opposite, usually once or twice ternate or once or twice pinnate, rarely simple; petiolules often twining and acting as tendrils.
Flowers in dichasial panicles or solitary, regular, bisexual or plants dioecious; perianth-segments valvate, rarely imbricate, usually 4 (rarely to 8), petaloid; stamens and carpels numerous; sometimes with more or less petaloid staminodes grading into stamens.
Fruit a head of achenes, each with a persistent long and often plumose style.
Distribution:
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About 300 species; cosmopolitan, especially of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere; in Australia about 10 endemic species, 1 introduced.
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Biology:
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Key to Species:
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1. Plants dioecious; most leaves biternate, with 9 leaflets |
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C. microphylla 1. |
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1. Flowers bisexual; most leaves imparipinnate, with 5 leaflets |
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C. vitalba 2. |
Author:
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