Clematis ladakhiana - Ladakh Clematis

Ladakh Clematis is a clambering or sprawling shrub with stems up to 2-3 m long, often tinged with purplish-brown. Leaves are pinnate with 5-7 leaflets or more or less double compound; leaflets rather glaucous-green, narrow- lanceshaped, 2.7-9 x 0.4-2 cm, entire or with 1-2 lobes in the lower part, with a tail, pointed, hairless or nearly hairless above and beneath. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, rarely at branch-ends, in groups of 3-5, sometimes solitary, yellow or orange-yellow, often tinged or spotted with purplish-brown or reddish-brown on the exterior, the sepals generally spreading rather widely apart, the filaments reddish-purple. Flower-cluster-stalks are 0.6-4.7 cm long. Bracts are similar to the leaves though smaller and generally with only 3-5 leaflets. Flower-stalks are 1.5-12 cm long, slender. Sepals are narrow-lanceshaped to elliptic, 1.5-2.5 x 4-10 mm, pointed to tapering, hairless on the exterior, except along the margin, generally densely velvet-hairy on the interior. Filaments are 6-10 mm long; anthers 2-3 mm long. Styles up to 40 mm long in fruit.