Clematis fulvicoma Rehder & Wilson in Pl. Wilson. 1: 327 - 328. 1913.

Climbing shrubs; branches sulcate, glabrous or sometimes scattered hairy. Leaves opposite, simple, up to 30 cm long; petioles (4-) 8 - 16 cm long, twining, ribbed, flattened at base; lamina entire, broad-ovate to elongate-ovate, truncate, subcordate, subcuneate or subpeltate at base, obtuse, acute or subacuminate at apex, 9 - 19 x 7 - 18 cm, subcoriaceous, glossy; main nerves 5 - 7 (-9), palmate from base, raised beneath. Inflorescence axillary, 3 - 9 (-many)-flowered racemes; bracts minute and linear or sometimes larger and elliptic-lanceolate; peduncles ribbed and pubescent; pedicels 2 - 5 cm long, densely brown pubescent; flower-buds elliptic, acute, densely deep brown villous. Sepals 4 - 5, spreading or reflexed from base; oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 7 - 18 x 2 - 6 mm, velvety tomentose outside with deep reddish brown tomentum, golden brown villous inside. Filaments linear, flat, glabrous; connectives produced beyond anthers. Achenes ovate, compressed, margined, grey hairy, with 3 - 7 cm long feathery tails.

Fl. Sept. - Jan.; Fr. Feb. - May.

Distrib. India: Open forests, near streams, 500 - 1500 m. Assam (Mikir hills) and Meghalaya.

Myanmar, Thailand and China.