Clematis tongluensis
(Bruehl) Tamura in Acta Phytotax. & Geobot. Kyoto 19:
71. 1962. C. montana var. tongluensis Bruehl in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 5: 74. 1896.
Climbing shrubs; branches glabrous or puberulous. Leaves usually opposite, occasionally clustered at nodes, pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets elongate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate, simple or 2 -
3-lobed, sparsely puberulous on both surfaces.
Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels 12 -
25 cm long. Sepals 4, spreading ovate-acuminate,
4 -
6 x 1 - 2 cm, generally glabrous outside, with a broad tomentose border, hairy all over
inside or rarely sparsely hairy inside. Filaments glabrous; connectives not produced;
anthers purple. Achenes broadly ovate, compressed, hairy, with ca 3 cm long feathery
tails.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Branches puberulous; leaflets broadly ovate; sepals sparsely hairy inside; achenes larger | 29.1. khasiana |
| b. Branches glabrous; leaflets ovate-lanceolate; sepals hairy inside; achenes small | 29.2. tongluensis |
