Clematis phanerophlebia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Clematis phanerophlebia Merr. & Perry

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 24: 35 (1943).

Clematis perspicuinervia Merr. & Perry (1948).

• Papua New Guinea: itituwa (Kaneba, Gulf Province).

New Guinea.

Pounded stems are used as a fish poison in small streams. A drink prepared by crushing stalks in water and mixing this with traditional salt is taken to treat chest pains.

A liana, stems cylindrical with many somewhat differently rounded ribs; leaves simple or ternate, leaflets ovate to elliptical-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 5-14 cm × 2-6 cm, base rounded, apex cuspidate, entire or dentate; inflorescence an axillary, dichasially ramified, raceme-like panicle; male flowers with tepals narrowly oblong to obovate, 6-7 mm × 2 mm, and 18-20 stamens, female flowers with tepals linear-lanceolate, 14-15 mm × 1.5-2.5 mm, 4-6 staminodes and 16-20 carpels; nutlets elliptical or ovate, c. 3 mm long, densely pubescent, plumose tail 3-4 cm long. C. phanerophlebia occurs in forest and thickets at 600-2500 m altitude.

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J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg