Dear all, I believe ID from Mr. Chadwell is correct.
Sending some links for further reference. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/5f4e50eb7d3e3a184a2bbd21a91d7971/synonym/6f1436a1371fc5055c00a2a4dc405de2 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=242421411 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=200007606 https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwie75nt9-jPAhWDu48KHZ9sBxMQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishclematis.org.uk%2Fforum%2Fforum_posts.asp%3FTID%3D224&psig=AFQjCNG9kM_w8BAO8f8MXttCHba8nec7Wg&ust=1477036936224450 https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishclematis.org.uk%2Fplantprofiles%2Fconfusa.htm&psig=AFQjCNG9kM_w8BAO8f8MXttCHba8nec7Wg&ust=1477036936224450 https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwifjqyg-ejPAhWKNo8KHaCwCIcQFggmMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theplantlist.org%2Ftpl1.1%2Frecord%2Fkew-2725843&usg=AFQjCNFKLxzH1nlyO6V8S4xKA2PB1RmUjA&sig2=Xe5UhXjpZBbAA1sUf4xwbg https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwifjqyg-ejPAhWKNo8KHaCwCIcQFghAMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbif.org%2Fspecies%2F3922754&usg=AFQjCNHFcfXg9YPBS9c3sDsvwcpMu-Baxw&sig2=A5KsJP3AMkpgKxoYh9M1EA Thank you. Saroj Kasaju On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:53 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > My first offering on Nepal. I am not as familiar with its flora as Ladakh > or the NW Himalaya and as with the whole of the Himalayan foothills, the > lower the elevation one goes, especially into sub-tropical and tropical > plants, my knowledge rapidly diminishes! Nevertheless, I have visited > Nepal on a number of occasions and know something of its flora. This > Clematis is certainly not *C.buchananiana*. *I think you will find this > is Clematis acutangula - it is not recorded in 'An Enumeration of the > Flowering Plants of Nepal' Vol 2, 1979) nor 'Flora of Kathmandu Valley' > (1986). Hooker knew the plant as is in FBI - from Khasia Hills (now > Meghalaya). Do not know of any images on internet. The pressed specimens > in Kew herbarium will not help much.* > If circumstances permit, I shall contribute more about Nepalese flora. > -- > Chris Chadwell > > Thanks a lot, Chadwell ji. > Catalogue of Life gives it (*Clematis acutangula* Hook. fil. & Thomson) as > a syn. of *Clematis ranunculoides *Franch. > <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/4b108ba967fa595534fa93d0952d2875/synonym/67c606b476aebb3589ba8e8105c41646> > Images of this look different at the following links: > http://www.clematisinternational.com/page74.html > http://www.pavelkaalpines.cz/Photos/China2009/clematisranunc > uloideslugulakeyunnanchina.html > http://www.britishclematis.org.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17 - from me > > > *Clematis acutangula * is not listed in Nepal in books as well as link : > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=107312 . > Another, the flower color and leaves do not match at all as per the links: > Link1 > <https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjjoJ_i6tfPAhUPTo8KHbPhDkcQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversity.bt%2Fspecies%2Fshow%2F2906&bvm=bv.135475266,d.c2I&psig=AFQjCNFFqq5bWJ65csYauSK9Yp_UkrWalg&ust=1476449156386248> > and > Link2 > <https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjgxvTs6tfPAhUDt48KHYUxDUMQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversity.bt%2Fobservation%2Fshow%2F3138&bvm=bv.135475266,d.c2I&psig=AFQjCNFFqq5bWJ65csYauSK9Yp_UkrWalg&ust=1476449156386248> > . > As such*,* request expert for the verdict. - > Thank you, > Saroj Kasaju > > > Thanks for letting me know. This name was supplied to me some years back. > I had assumed they had expertise, so never > checked further. I am not a specialist in the genus *Clematis* but will > check further incl. with the person who provided the name. > Yes, the plant photographed does not match the images of *Clematis > ranunculoides* you provided links to. > A lesson to all - always double-check IF you can! > Best Wishes, > Chris Chadwell > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> > Date: 4 October 2016 at 14:28 > Subject: SK125OCT042016:ID > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" < > [email protected]> > > > Dear Members, > > Sharing some pictures for ID shot at the Chandtagiri Hill Kathmandu on 19 > September 2016 at 8200 ft. > > Could it be *Clematis buchananiana* DC. ?? > > If so why color of flower is different? > > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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