Clematis ladakhiana Grey-Wilson in Kew Bull. 44: 49, ff. 1 N-P, 4 D-F. 1989. C. orientalis var. acutifolia Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 9. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 5. 1875. C. orientalis L. var. longicaudata sensu Mukerjee in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 1: 139. 1959, non Ledeb.

Shrubs, climbing or straggling; stems up to 2 - 3 m long, tinged with purplish brown, slightly pubescent to glabrous. Leaves pinnate with 5 - 7 leaflets or more or less bipinnate; leaflets narrow-lanceolate, entire or with 1 - 2 lobes in the lower part, caudate-acute at apex, (1.5 -) 2.7 - 9 x 0.4 - 2 cm, glabrous or subglabrous above and beneath, glaucous green. Flowers axillary, yellow, often tinged or spotted with purplish brown or reddish brown outside; peduncles 0.6 - 4.7 cm long; bracts similar to leaves, generally with 3 - 5 leaflets; pedicels slender, 1.5 - 12 cm long, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous. Sepals narrow-lanceolate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, 15 - 25 x 4 - 10 mm, glabrous to subglabrous outside, pubescent along margins, densely pubescent inside. Filaments 6 - 10 mm long; anthers 2 - 3 mm long. Styles up to 4 cm long in fruit.

Fl. July - Sept.

Distrib. India: On walls, hedges and bushes, or scrambling amongst rocks, along river valleys, 2800 - 3800 m. Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

China (Tibet).