• Family : RANUNCULACEAE
  (Buttercup Or Crowfoot Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEELAMABARI FAMILY (नीलाम्बरी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RANUNCULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Clematis heynei M.A.Rau & al.
• Common name : Deccan Clematis
• Vernacular name : Laghukarni (Sanskrit); Moravela (Hindi); Sowgaballi (Kannada)
• Habit : Liana
• Comments / notes : Rare, in open thickets and on Fort walls
• Key identification features : A rampant woody climber with flowers in much-branched clusters in leaf axils. Flowers are attractive, 2-2.2 cm. across with numerous stamens. Leaves are pinnately compound with stalks of terminal leaflets elongated into tendrils; leaflets are entire and elliptic-ovate.
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Collection Nos : S. Raghavan 83326
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
• Native : New Caledonia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Clematis triloba. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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