Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Clematis microphylla

Male flowers. Australian Plant Imge Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Kulliparu Conservation Park, Eyre Peninsula, SA.

Seeds. Australian Plant Imge Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Common name

Small-leaved clematis

Family

Ranunculaceae

Where found

Mallee, woodland, and other vegetation communities. Climbs on trees and shrubs on sandy or rocky soils. ACT and tablelands. Ranges in the Blue Mountains and Kanangra-Boyd National Parks. Western Slopes west from south of Cowra.

Notes

Woody climber to about 5 m tall.  Leaves opposite each other, compound, with 3-9 leaflets, or occasionally with a few entire leaves. Each leaflet 0.6-6 cm long, 0.3-13 mm wide, becoming hairless, margins entire, sometimes with 1 or 2 lobes at the base, or appearing toothed on incompletely divided leaves, tips usually blunt, leaf stalks often twining or twisting.  Male and female flowers usually on separate plants.  Flowers creamy white to pale yellow, with 4 petal-like sepals about 10–20 mm long, and 0 petals, in open clusters. Flowering: usually July–December

Was Clematis microphylla subsp. microphylla.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Clematis~microphylla (accessed 4 April, 2021)