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Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.

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Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Turcz.
Turcz.
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Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
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Clematis cunninghamii

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cunninghamii

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Lianes with slender main stems up to 3 m. or more tall; branchlets finely grooved, pilose when young. Lvs 3-foliolate on slender pilose-pubescent petioles c. 3 cm. long. Lflts pubescent-pilose, becoming glab. on petiolules c. 1 cm. long; ovate, us. cordate at base, submembr., entire or crenately toothed or lobed, lobes often apiculate; 1·5-4 × 1-2 cm. Infl. in axillary rather few-fld panicles up to 8 cm. long; peduncles slender, pubescent-pilose, as are the very slender to filiform pedicels c. 2-3 cm. long. Bracts linear-oblong, ± connate at base, pilose. Fls slightly fragrant. ♂ 1-2-(2.5) cm. diam.; sepals 5-8, narrow-oblong to elliptic-oblong, yellowish, c. 1-1·5 cm. long, subacute, ± pubescent. Stamens ∞, with filaments up to 1 cm. long; anthers c. 1-1·5 mm. long, ovate-oblong to elliptic; connective produced into minute blunt apiculus. ♀ with smaller sepals; stamens us. abortive; achenes 1-2 mm. long, pilose, becoming glab.; styles c. 1-2 cm. long, white-plumose.

Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.

Evergreen woody climber. Lvs with fulvous hairs especially beneath, 3-foliolate, 3-8-(16) × 2-7-(16) cm; leaflets thin, ovate, acute to obtuse; margins entire to serrate, sometimes deeply lobed to dissected; petiole pilose, 2-5-(8) cm long. Fls unisexual, in axillary dichasial cymes. Bracts paired, united, inserted about middle of peduncle, with fulvous hairs. ♂ fls: sepals (5)-6-(8), imbricate, yellowish, glabrous above, hairy beneath, narrow-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 9-12-(22) × 2-5 mm; anthers 0.7-1 mm long; filaments glabrous. ♀ fls: sepals 5-8, imbricate, yellowish, glabrous above, hairy beneath, elliptic-ovate, 8-13-(15) × 2-3-(6) mm; staminodes few. Achenes hairy, (2)-3-4 mm long. Style 1.5-2.5-(3) cm long at fruiting.

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Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis hillii Colenso
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
Clematis parviflora A.Cunn.
Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.

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Clematis cunninghamii Turcz.
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91b7cbb0-c25a-4d48-9b2e-7333fead8d63
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 April 2008
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