Clematis welwitschii Kuntze

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Clematis welwitschii

Habit
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman

Clematis welwitschii

Leaf
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman

Clematis welwitschii

Flower
Miombo woodland
Chikankata District
May 2025
Photo: Nick Wightman

Clematis welwitschii

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:
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:
Derivation of specific name: welwitschii: named after the Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872)
Habitat:
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:Apr - Jun
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
FZ divisions: N,C,S
Growth form(s): Climber.
Endemic status:
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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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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Clematis welwitschii.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123560, retrieved 5 December 2025

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