Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Clematis glycinoides
Headache Vine, Forest Clematis
Ranunculaceae
Forest and gullies, sometimes in other habitats. Widespread, but not on the Western Slopes.
Woody climber, stems to 15 m long. Young stems densely hairy, soon becoming hairless. Leaves opposite each other, adult leaves 4-25 cm long, mostly compound with 3-9 leaflets (or simple on juvenile plants). Simple leaves and the leaflets usually 1.5–12 cm long, 10–80 mm wide, glossy and rather thin-textured, margins entire, or occasionally with a few teeth, or with more or less triangular lobes usually near the base, leaf stalks twining or twisting. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 4 petal-like sepals, white, each 10–27 mm long. 0 petals. Flowers in branched clusters. Flowering: usually August–November
PlantNET recognises two varieties. Var glycinoides is now Clematis glycinoides. Var. submutica is now Clematis pickeringii. This species occurs mostly north of Port Macquarie.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Clematis~glycinoides (accessed 30 April 2021)
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