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Clematis welwitschii

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Identification
Clematis kassneri Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Clematis welwitschii Hiern ex Kuntze [family RANUNCULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Clematis thunbergii
  • Clematis kassneri
  • Clematis prostrata
  • Clematis welwitschii

Flora

Entry for CLEMATIS welwitschii [Hiern ex] O. Ktze. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1952) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD AND W. B. TURRILL
Names
CLEMATIS welwitschii [Hiern ex] O. Ktze. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 26: 171 (1885); Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. 1: 3 (1896); Exell & Mendonça in Consp. Fl. Angol. 1: 3 (1937); F.C.B. 2: 188, t. XV (1951). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch 1217 (BM, holo.!, K, iso.!)
CLEMATIS thunbergii Engl. var. angustisecta [family RANUNCULACEAE], in E. J. 30: 309 (1901). Type: Tanganyika, Mbeya District, Usafwa, Utengule, Goetze 1033 (B, holo., K, iso.!)
CLEMATIS kassneri Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in E. J. 45: 274 (1910). Type: Belgian Congo, Katanga, Kassner 2663 (B, holo., K, iso.!)
Information
A woody trailing or climbing plant; younger stems pilose, glabrescent with age, longitudinally ribbed and furrowed. Leaves most often bipinnate or (rarely) pinnate with lateral leaflets more or less deeply trilobed; leaflets typically oblong with few rather irregular teeth, glabrous or glabrescent on upper surface, more or less pilose, especially on veins, on lower surface. Inflorescences loose, usually about 5–7 flowered; pedicels 1.5–6.5 cm. long; buds ellipsoid, rounded or acute. Sepals 1.3–2.5 cm. long, outer surface pale pink with scattered hairs except at margin or glabrescent, inner surface densely lanate. Fig. 1, (p. 4).
Range
DISTR. T5, 7
Altitude range
1500–1800 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mbeya District Mbozi, 30 Aug. 1933, Greenway 3646!
Distribution (external)
Angola
southern Belgian Congo
Northern
Southern Rhodesia

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