Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Seeds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Small-leaved Clematis

Family

Ranunculaceae

Notes

Woody climber to 3m tall.  Leaves opposite each other, composed of 3 or 6-9 leaflets, occasionally single entire leaves, each leaflet sometimes with 1 or 2 basal lobes, 0.6-5cm long, 1-13mm wide, flat, hairless, usually with blunt tips.  Male and female flowers usually on separate plants.  Flowers creamy white, with 4 'petals', in open panicles at the ends of the stems or on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Poorly known Vic, as Clematis sp. (12-15 leaflets).

Description and photo (as Clematis microphylla var. microphylla) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 308-309

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Clematis~microphylla