Clematis

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Ranunculaceae

• Scientific Name

  Clematis

• Description

  Description - Woody vines that climb by means of twining leaves. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate, pinnate or biternate; petioles elongate; stipules absent. Flowers unisexual or bisexual, actinomorphic, produced in cymes or umbels, arranged in racemes; calyx of 4-5 free petaloid sepals; petals absent; stamens numerous, the filaments free, the anthers dehiscent longitudinally; ovary superior, of numerous free carpels, with a single ovule, the style terminal, slender, plumose. Fruit an achene with a persistent style, elongate and plumose, dispersed by the wind. A genus of about 250 species, the great majority of which are of the temperate zone.