• 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 hirsuta Guill. & Perr.
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Shola forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist valleys, above 1000m
• Flower, Fruit : October-May
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 01/02/1971
• Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 1239
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district)
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 wightiana. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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