Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Clematis glycinoides

Flowering stems (male flowers). Photographer Don Wood, near Bermagui

Fluffy seeds and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Seeding plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Barrington Tops State Forest west of Barrington

Common name

Headache Vine, Forest Clematis

Family

Ranunculaceae

Where found

Forest and gullies, sometimes in other habitats. Widespread, but not on the Western Slopes.

Notes

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)