Jump to content

Clematis gouriana: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
External links: No longer a stub
top: added common name (with reference)
Line 7: Line 7:
}}
}}


'''''Clematis gouriana''''' is a [[liana]] found in [[Asia]] which belongs to the [[buttercup]] family ([[Ranunculaceae]]).<ref name="MahaStateGaz">{{cite book|title=Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Botany, Part III - Miscellaneous Plants|editor=P. Setu Madhava Rao|date=January 1961|edition=2|series=General Series Volume A|publisher=Maharastra State|place=Mumbai|page=522}}</ref> It was described by Roxb. ex DC. and published in ''Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale'' 1: 138-139, in 1818.<ref name="PlantList">{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2726069 |title=Clematis gouriana Roxb. ex DC. |website=The Plant List |accessdate=3 June 2016}}</ref>
'''''Clematis gouriana''''', or '''Indian Traveller's Joy'''<ref name="TalbotBombay"/>, is a [[liana]] found in [[Asia]] which belongs to the [[buttercup]] family ([[Ranunculaceae]]).<ref name="MahaStateGaz">{{cite book|title=Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Botany, Part III - Miscellaneous Plants|editor=P. Setu Madhava Rao|date=January 1961|edition=2|series=General Series Volume A|publisher=Maharastra State|place=Mumbai|page=522}}</ref> It was described by Roxb. ex DC. and published in ''Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale'' 1: 138-139, in 1818.<ref name="PlantList">{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2726069 |title=Clematis gouriana Roxb. ex DC. |website=The Plant List |accessdate=3 June 2016}}</ref>

==Distribution==
==Distribution==
The creeper occurs in the Himalayas from India, eastward through Nepal and into western and southern [[China]].<ref name="ClematisEncyclopedia">{{cite book|title=An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis|last1=Toomey|first1=Mary|last2=Leeds|first2=Everett|publisher=British Clematis Society|place=Portland, Oregon, USA|page=206}}</ref>
The creeper occurs in the Himalayas from India, eastward through Nepal and into western and southern [[China]].<ref name="ClematisEncyclopedia">{{cite book|title=An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis|last1=Toomey|first1=Mary|last2=Leeds|first2=Everett|publisher=British Clematis Society|place=Portland, Oregon, USA|page=206}}</ref>

Revision as of 04:59, 24 March 2018

Clematis gouriana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Clematis
Species:
C. gouriana
Binomial name
Clematis gouriana
Roxb. ex DC.

Clematis gouriana, or Indian Traveller's Joy[1], is a liana found in Asia which belongs to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).[2] It was described by Roxb. ex DC. and published in Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 1: 138-139, in 1818.[3]

Distribution

The creeper occurs in the Himalayas from India, eastward through Nepal and into western and southern China.[4] In peninsular India, the creeper is commonly found on the Western Ghats of India, and patches of adjoining forest of the Konkan coast and Deccan plateau.[2]

Description

Botanical illustration of C. gouriana by Rungiah in Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Volume 1 (1851) (plate 1 of 2).
Botanical illustration of C. gouriana by Rungiah in Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Volume 1 (1851) (plate 2 of 2).

A large climbing shrub, reaching upto the canopies of trees. Glabrous, except for the younger parts of the plant. Grooved stem and branches. Leaves are pinnate, sometimes bi-pinnate or tri-pinnate. Leaflets may be ovate or oblong acumineate, with nerves and reticulate venation, and have a shining surface. Small flowers in many branched pannicles. Each flower is 1 to 1.5 inches wide, fragrant and greenish-white. Petals are absent but four greenish sepals present which are oblong-ovate and covered with soft down. Many stamens, with free, narrow and straight filaments which thicken towards the top. Compressed achenes, narrowly ovoid or oblong, with persistant feathery style.[2][1][5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b W A Talbot (1902). The Trees, Shrubs and Wood-Climbers of the Bombay Presidency (2 ed.). Bombay: Government Central Press. p. 2.
  2. ^ a b c P. Setu Madhava Rao, ed. (January 1961). Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Botany, Part III - Miscellaneous Plants. General Series Volume A (2 ed.). Mumbai: Maharastra State. p. 522.
  3. ^ "Clematis gouriana Roxb. ex DC". The Plant List. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  4. ^ Toomey, Mary; Leeds, Everett. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis. Portland, Oregon, USA: British Clematis Society. p. 206.
  5. ^ Talbot, WA; Gibson, Alexander (1861). The Bombay Flora (2 ed.). Bombay: Education Society Press. p. 1.
  6. ^ Sardesai, Milind; Govekar, Ravikiran; Yadav, SR (2013). Field Guide to the Plants of Sahyadri and Konkan. Pune: Forest Department, Government of Maharashtra. p. 138.
  7. ^ Shrikant Ingalhallikar (November 2001). Flowers of Sahyadri. Pune: S. Ingalhallikar. p. 98.