Entry for CLEMATOPSIS scabiosifolia (DC.) Hutch. [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
CLEMATOPSIS scabiosifolia(DC.) Hutch. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in K.B. 1920: 20 (1920); Exell & Mendonça, Consp. Fl. Angol. 1: 5 (1937); F.C.B. 2; 198, t. XVI (1951). Type: probably from Angola, collector uncertain. (P, holo.)
Information
Perennial, with erect herbaceous stems 0.7–1.5 m. tall, strongly longitudinally striate, indumentum varying from densely silky matted hairs to spreading not silky hairs, or sparsely spreading hairs, or glabrescent. Leaves pinnate to bipinnate or trifoliolate, except sometimes near the base or apex of the stems where they may be simple, very variable in details of shape and indumentum (see key to groups below). Flowers solitary to fairly numerous at the ends of stems or main branches, 3.5–7 cm. in diameter. Sepals more or less spreading, softly hairy on both surfaces, white, cream, mauve, or pink. Anthers up to 5 mm. long. Achenes in heads up to 10 cm. in diameter.Seven groups are recognized by Exell, Léonard, and Milne-Redhead, in B.S.B.B. 83: 412 (1951), as occurring in Africa.
