Clematis welwitschii
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Habit
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaf
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Clematis kassneri Engl. Clematis orientalis var. bolusiana Kuntze Clematis orientalis var. pauciflora Kuntze Clematis prostrata Hutch. Clematis thunbergii Steud. Clematis thunbergii var. angustisecta Engl. Clematis thunbergii var. pauciflora (Kuntze) T.Durand & Schinz Clematis triloba Thunb. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Woody trailing or climbing plant; younger stems pilose, glabrescent with age, longitudinally ribbed and furrowed. Leaves bipinnate, pinnate-ternate or pinnate with the lateral leaflets more or less deeply trilobed; leaflets typically oblong with few rather irregular teeth, glabrous or glabrescent on upper surface, pubescent to pilose, especially on the veins, or nearly glabrous on lower surface. Inflorescence loose, 3–7 or more-flowered or flowers occasionally solitary; pedicels 1.5–6.5 cm long; buds ellipsoid, rounded or acute. Sepals 1.2–2.5 cm long, outer surface pale pink or purple with scattered hairs or glabrescent outside except at the margin which is densely hairy; inner surface densely lanate. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: | Clematis welwitschii has now been placed into synonymy under C. triloba in Wang, WT. 2004. A revision of Clematis sect. Brachiatae (Ranunculaceae). Acta Phytotax. Sin. 42(4): 289 - 332. |
| Derivation of specific name: | welwitschii: named after the Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872) |
| Habitat: | Wooded grassland and Brachystegia woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1800 m |
| Flowering time: | Apr - Jun |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| FZ divisions: | N,W,C |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw,Cb,N,Mc,C,S |
| Growth form(s): | Climber. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Monday 28 July 2025 |
| Literature: |
Exell, A.W. & Milne-Redhead, E. (1960). Ranunculaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 92. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 69. |
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