Clematis pauciflora

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Ranunculaceae
Subfamilia: Ranunculoideae
Tribus: Anemoneae
Genus: Clematis
Subgenus: C. subg. Clematis
Sectio: C. sect. Aspidanthera
Sectio: C. subsect. Lasianthae
Species: Clematis pauciflora
Name

Clematis pauciflora Nutt., Fl. N. Amer. (Torrey & A.Gray) 1：657. 1840.
Synonyms

Homotypic

Clematis lasiantha var. pauciflora（Nutt.）Kuntze, Verh. Bot.Ver. Brand. 26：145. 1885.
Clematis nuttallii Koch in Hort. Dendr. 10：n. 27. 1853.
Clematis parviflora Nutt., Fl. N. Amer. (Torrey & A.Gray) 1：9. 1838, nom. illeg. non DC. (1823).

References

Wang, W.T. 2004. A revision of Clematis sect. Aspidanthera s.l. (Ranunculaceae). Acta Phytotax. Sin. 42:12–14.

Vernacular names

Clematis pauciflora is a species of clematis known by the common name ropevine. This flowering plant is native to the high desert and chaparral slopes of southern California and Baja California. It is a woody vine with nodes every few centimeters which produce leaves and flowers. The leaves are made up of several dark green lobed leaflets, each one to three centimeters wide. From each leaf-bearing node grows an inflorescence of one to three flowers with narrow petallike sepals in shades of light yellow. Most of the flower is made up of a spray of up to 50 stamens and almost as many similar-looking pistils. The fruit is an achene equipped with a long plume-like style. The specific epithet pauciflora is Latin for 'few-flowered'.[2][3]
References

"NatureServe Explorer". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
Allen J. Coombes The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants, p. 106, at Google Books
D. Gledhill The Names of Plants, p. 220, at Google Books