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Clematis grossa

Botanic Family

Ranunculaceae

Author

Bentham

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Kyu Tini (Gurung)
• Bhere Kuro (Nepali)
• Bhramlaman (Tamang)
• Huang mao tie xian lian (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• forest
• riverside shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Large woody liana or herbaceous climber with hairy stems. 3-5 folilate leaves, crenate often 3-lobed leaflets to 100mm long, pilose or glabrate above & densely tomentose beneath. Dioecious flowers in cymose panicles, 20mm white flushed green flowers, sepals to 9mm long. Achenes to 3mm long with hairy styles.

Leaves used to produce blisters, paste of fruit used for diarrhea & dysentery.

Further References

• Grey-Wilson 2000
• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• FOG
• Standley