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Clematis dioica

Botanic Family

Ranunculaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Espirito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• In shrubs or forest
• riverside
• secondary forest
• coastal forest
• rain forest
• thickets
• streamside
• hedges
• secondary vegetation
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Oct-Feb (Puerto Rico)
• May-Jul (Jamaica)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Feb (Puerto Rico)

Villous dioecious or polygamous slightly woody slender climber with twining petioles, 10-12 angled stems. Trifoliolate pinnate to 5-foliolate or ternate leaves glabrous above, glabrous or puberulent beneath, leaflets to 100mm long, entire or sometimes toothed. Axillary or terminal cymes or panicles of unisexual flowers, 4 white or cream tomentose sepals to 10mm long, 15mm cream to greenish-white fragrant flowers. Pilose achene to 4mm long with plumose style to 50mm long.

Further References

• Grey-Wilson 2000
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• CPC
• NYBG
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• FOG
• SAFIO
• Standley