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Eastern Blue Clematis
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Eastern Blue Clematis
P Native Photo: Baishali Das
Common name: Eastern Blue Clematis • Assamese: Bon-jaluki, Ban-marich
Botanical name: Clematis cadmia    Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Synonyms: Clematis bracteata, Clematis stronachii

Eastern Blue Clematis is a slender perennial, herbaceous vine. Flowers are 3.5-6 cm in diameter, with 5-6 petals (technically sepals). Petals are blue or white, spreading, obovate to narrowly obovate, 2-3 x 1-1.6 cm, below finely velvet-hairy, above hairless, tip pointed. Stamens are 5-10 mm, anthers linear, 4-5 mm. Flower-stalks are 3.5-7 cm. Flowers are borne singly on long flower-cluster-stalk, with two leafy bracts about the middle. Branches are shallowly 5-grooved. Leaves are 2-ternate or pinnate; leaf-stalk 2-5.5 cm, leaflet narrowly ovate, ovate, or lanceshaped, 1.5-5 x 0.6-2 cm, papery, undivided or sometimes 3-lobed. Eastern Blue Clematis is found in NE India to S. China and N. Indo-China. Flowering: April-May.

Identification credit: Baishali Das Photographed in Sootea, Biswanath distt, Assam.

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