Clematis lasiantha
Clematis reticulata
chaparral clematis, pipestem, pipestem clematis
net-leaf clematis, netleaf leather flower
scrambling to climbing, 3-4 m. Leaf blade 3-foliolate;
leaflets ovate, largest leaflets usually 3-lobed, 1.5-6 × 1.5-5 cm;
terminal leaflet occasionally 3-cleft, margins usually toothed;
surfaces glabrous or sparsely silky.
viny, to 4 m, glabrous or sparsely pilose-pubescent, sometimes more densely pubescent near nodes.
blade 1-pinnate;
leaflets 6-8 plus additional tendril-like terminal leaflet, elliptic to ovate, unlobed, 1-3-lobed, or proximal 3-foliolate, 1-9 × 0.5-5(-7.5) cm, leathery, prominently and finely reticulate abaxially and adaxially;
surfaces abaxially silky-pubescent, not glaucous.
axillary, flowers solitary, rarely 3-flowered cymes.
axillary, 1-3-flowered;
bracts about 1/3 distance from base of peduncle.
unisexual;
pedicel (including peduncle) stout, 3.5-11 cm;
sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, ovate or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 10-21 mm, abaxially and adaxially pilose;
stamens 50-100;
filaments glabrous;
staminodes absent or 50-100;
pistils 75-100.
urn-shaped;
sepals pale lavender to purple, greenish toward tip, ovate-lanceolate, 1.2-3 cm, margins not expanded, ± thick, not crispate, densely tomentose, tips acute, recurved, abaxially usually ± densely yellowish pubescent, occasionally nearly glabrous.
asymmetric-ovate, not broadly orbiculate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm, not conspicuously rimmed, glabrous;
beak 3.5-5.5 cm.
bodies appressed-pubescent;
beak 4-6 cm, plumose.
= 16.
= 16.
Clematis lasiantha
Clematis reticulata
Clematis lasiantha is common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California.
The Shasta used pounded stems or chewed or burned roots of Clematis lasiantha medicinally in the treatment of colds (D. E. Moerman 1986).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
In immature fruit, especially, the vestiture of the beaks of Clematis reticulata might not consistently suffice to distinguish it from C. pitcheri, which has appressed-pubescent beaks. Clematis reticulata is distinguished from C. pitcheri by the very fine reticulation of the leaves, with the smallest areoles completely enclosed by veinlets generally less than 1 mm long and even the quaternary veins prominently raised on the adaxial surface.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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