Clematis bahamica (Kuntze) Britton
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Ranunculaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Vine slender, trailing or high-climbing, the young plants sparingly and loosely pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate or the uppermost simple; leaflets slenderstalked, 4 cm. long or less, various in form even on the same vine, ovate to oval or nearly orbicular, acute or obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, quite glabrous when mature, entire, or often 3-lobed, firm in texture and strongly veined on the under side; achenes plump, only 3 mm. long, the filiform plumose style 3-5 cm. long; flowers few, in small leafy-bracted panicles; pedicels loosely pubescent; sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 5 mm. long, loosely pubescent, in a Mariguana specimen coherent and falling away as a cap.
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Distribution
Rocky thickets, pine-lands and sink-holes, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Great Exuma, and Mariguana. Endemic. Referred by Mrs. Northrop to G. dioica; by Hitchcock to C. flammulastrum, and by Dolley to C. Vitalba. Bahama Vibgin's-bower.
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