Clematis wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.

KLEM-uh-tiss or klem-AT-iss -- ancient Greek klematis (vine); climbing ... Dave's Botanary
wight-ee-AY-na -- named for Robert Wight, Scottish surgeon and botanist in India ... Dave's Botanary • Wikipedia

commonly known as: lax-flowered clematis • Marathi: सोन जाई son-jai


botanical names: Clematis wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 12 March 2025

Bibliography / etymology

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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

lax-flowered clematis

• Flowers of India, retrieved March 12, 2025

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka

सोन जाई son-jai

• name coined, for want of name, by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author of Flowers of Sahyadri, the first among the three field guides to identify plants of northern Western Ghats of India, based on flowers

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~

*Arunachal Pradesh, *Karnataka, *Kerala, Maharashtra, *Mizoram, *Tamil Nadu; not endemic to India; known to be distributed globally in Saudi Arabia

• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.03; last update March 6th, 2025. Last accessed 12/03/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).
• Pramanick, D.D. & M. Bhaumik (2024). Extended distribution of Clematis wightiana Wall. (Ranunculaceae) in the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh – a hitherto endemic species of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 16(3): 24999–25002.

* no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state

~~~~~ Created on: 17:38 12-03-2025 ¦ Last updated: 19:55 12-03-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~

Ranunculaceae climber "Clematis wightiana" "lax-flowered clematis"