Entry for CLEMATIS Stanleyi Hook. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CLEMATIS StanleyiHook. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Ic. t. 589
Information
densely albo-tomentose; leaves tripinnately parted, pinnæ 3–4 pairs, multipartite, the laciniæ narrow-linear, simple or cloven; flowering branches paniculate, the panicle leafy; peduncles single-flowered, longer than the leaves; flower-buds obtuse; sepals spreading, broadly obovate, obtuse or emarginate. A tall, stout, much branched, suberect shrub, thickly clothed in all parts with pale, silky, spreading hairs. Leaves densely set, and cut into slender shreds. Panicles terminal, and corymbose. The peduncles are often bracteate in the middle. The flowers are 1 1/2 inches in diameter and seemingly purple (or blue?).
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Macallisberg, Burke! Port Natal, Miss Owen (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.)
Notes
A noble species, named in compliment to the late Lord Derby by whose collector it was first sent to Europe. It was, however, first found by Miss Owen, in the Zooloo Country, in 1840.
