Clematis Hedysarifolia
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''Clematis hedysarifolia'' is a
liana A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. T ...
, endemic to peninsular India, belonging to the
buttercup ''Ranunculus'' is a large genus of about 1750 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. The genus is distributed worldwide, primarily in temperate an ...
family (
Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae (, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family (biology), family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 spec ...
). It was described by
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss people, Swiss botany, botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple ...
and published in ''Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale'' 1: 148, in 1817.


Description

It is a woody evergreen climber, with the following features: * Branches - ribbed, roundish, thinly sprinkled with very fine soft hairs when young. * Leaves - pinnate or bipinnate, opposite, in pairs alternately perpendicular, with wide intervals between the pairs, with 3 leaflets. **Petiole : purplish, slightly hairy, up to 9 cm long, sometimes twining. **Leaflets : leathery, green, glabrous, stalked, entire, ovate lanceolate, with acuminate apex, base rounded or cordate, strongly reticulate, . * Inflorescence - Flower panicles are arise in leaf axils and at the end of branches, pendulous, many-flowered, branchlets stiff, decussately opposite and wide apart. Flower stalks are slender, hairy, bearing two small opposite abortive buds below their middle. Flowers are white, furred on the outside, about 1.6 cm across. ** Flowers - yellowish-green to white, furred on the outside, about 1.6 cm across. ** Sepals - 4, ovate, ovate-oblong, externally tomentose ** Petals - 4, ovally oblong, equal, blunt, cruciately rotate. ** Stamens - cream-coloured, upright, about 1/4 shorter than the petals, many, smooth. ** Anthers - Compressed, threadlike filaments. Anthers of same color, linearly oblong, upright with a short obtuse point and a flattish receptacle. ** Pistils - longer than the stamens, greenish. * Fruit/Seeds - Achenes compressed, broadly elliptic or ovate, hairy, 5mm × 3mm. Easily distinguished from the common Clematis gouriana, by the larger flowers and aristate (pointed) anthers. File:Bendrichi_Vel_(Konkani-_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2)_(5155235250).jpg, Flower File:Clematis_hedysarifolia_(5154624849).jpg, Flower pannicle File:Clematis_hedysarifolia_DC._(6226156668).jpg, Tendrils, leaf stalk with buds


Distribution

The species is endemic to India, and found in forests of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka states. The creeper occurs in moist deciduous forests between the altitudes of 500–1500 m. Flowering is October–November, and fruiting is in December.


References


External links

* hedysarifolia Plants described in 1817 {{ranunculaceae-stub