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Clematis thalictrifolia Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 89, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell and E. Milne-Redhead
Names
Clematis thalictrifolia Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 45: 270 (1910). — Staner & Léonard, F.C.B. 2: 187 (1951). Type from the Belgian Congo (Katanga, Kundelungu).
Information
Woody trailing plant, younger stems longitudinally ribbed and furrowed, rather sparsely pubescent. Leaves bipinnate or pinnate-ternate; leaflets and segments of deeply cut leaflets narrowly elliptic, glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, sparsely pilose beneath. Flowers solitary (always ?), axillary, with peduncles up to 7.5 cm. long and pedicels up to 11 cm. long. Sepals 4, 2.5–3.5 cm. long, white, purplish outside, pubescent outside, more densely so on the margins and tomentose within. Anthers 3.5 mm. long.
Habitat
In Brachystegia woodland.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn, on road to Kalambo Falls, fl. 30.iii.1952, Richards 1247 (K).
Distribution (external)
Belgian Congo (Upper Katanga) Tanganyika
Notes
This little-known species appears to be related to C. welwitschii Hiern ex Kuntze, from which it can be distinguished by the larger, solitary flowers.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 89, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell and E. Milne-Redhead
Names
Clematis thalictrifolia Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 45: 270 (1910). — Staner & Léonard, F.C.B. 2: 187 (1951). Type from the Belgian Congo (Katanga, Kundelungu).
Information
Woody trailing plant, younger stems longitudinally ribbed and furrowed, rather sparsely pubescent. Leaves bipinnate or pinnate-ternate; leaflets and segments of deeply cut leaflets narrowly elliptic, glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, sparsely pilose beneath. Flowers solitary (always ?), axillary, with peduncles up to 7.5 cm. long and pedicels up to 11 cm. long. Sepals 4, 2.5–3.5 cm. long, white, purplish outside, pubescent outside, more densely so on the margins and tomentose within. Anthers 3.5 mm. long.
Habitat
In Brachystegia woodland.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn, on road to Kalambo Falls, fl. 30.iii.1952, Richards 1247 (K).
Distribution (external)
Belgian Congo (Upper Katanga) Tanganyika
Notes
This little-known species appears to be related to C. welwitschii Hiern ex Kuntze, from which it can be distinguished by the larger, solitary flowers.
Clematis thalictrifolia Engl. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
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