Clematis napaulensis
DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 164. 1817 & DC., Prodr. 1: 9. 1824; Hook.
f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 2. 1872.
Garh.: Kangalya.
Slender bushy glabrous woody climbers. Leaves opposite, but crowded at nodes in older branches, simple or ternate; leaflets narrowly ovate-Ianceolate, often 2 - 3-lobed, cuneate or rounded at base, acuminate at apex, 3 - 10 x 1 - 3 cm, glabrous or puberulous; lateral leaflets oblique. Flowers in axillary fascicles; bracts forming a bilobed cup at base of pedicels, 5 - 10 mm long; pedicels 2 - 4 cm long, tomentose, thick and elongate to 2 cm in fruit. Sepals 4, suberect, oblong-elliptic, 1.5 - 2 x 0.5 - 0.7 cm, greenish yellow outside, purplish inside, silky pubescent outside. Filaments purplish, flattened towards base, glabrous; connectives not produced beyond anther. Achenes ovate or obovate, compressed, margined, densely hairy with up to 4.5 cm long feathery tails.
Fl. Oct. - Feb.; Fr. Dec. - May.
Distrib. India: Subtropical forests, 1500 - 2000 m. Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim.
Nepal, Bhutan and China (Yunnan).
Slender bushy glabrous woody climbers. Leaves opposite, but crowded at nodes in older branches, simple or ternate; leaflets narrowly ovate-Ianceolate, often 2 - 3-lobed, cuneate or rounded at base, acuminate at apex, 3 - 10 x 1 - 3 cm, glabrous or puberulous; lateral leaflets oblique. Flowers in axillary fascicles; bracts forming a bilobed cup at base of pedicels, 5 - 10 mm long; pedicels 2 - 4 cm long, tomentose, thick and elongate to 2 cm in fruit. Sepals 4, suberect, oblong-elliptic, 1.5 - 2 x 0.5 - 0.7 cm, greenish yellow outside, purplish inside, silky pubescent outside. Filaments purplish, flattened towards base, glabrous; connectives not produced beyond anther. Achenes ovate or obovate, compressed, margined, densely hairy with up to 4.5 cm long feathery tails.
Fl. Oct. - Feb.; Fr. Dec. - May.
Distrib. India: Subtropical forests, 1500 - 2000 m. Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim.
Nepal, Bhutan and China (Yunnan).
