*Clematis wightiana* Wall. ex Wight & Arn. [image: Clematis wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.] <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104853631>
*KLEM-uh-tiss* or *klem-AT-iss* -- ancient Greek *klematis* (vine); climbing ... Dave's Botanary <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=Clematis> *wight-ee-AY-na* -- named for Robert Wight, Scottish surgeon and botanist in India ... Dave's Botanary <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/> • Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wight> *commonly known as*: lax-flowered clematis • *Marathi*: सोन जाई son-jai *botanical names*: *Clematis wightiana* Wall. ex Wight & Arn. ... and more at POWO <https://powo.science.kew.org/>, retrieved 12 March 2025 Bibliography / etymology Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India <https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/12/languages-of-india.html> mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken *sensu amplo*. ~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~ written and spoken widely, in most parts of India *lax-flowered clematis* - Flowers of India <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Lax-Flowered%20Clematis.html>, 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. <https://www.worldplants.de/world-plants-complete-list/complete-plant-list> 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. <https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/8662> 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) ~~~~~ Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/03/clematis-wightiana-wall-ex-wight-arn.html Regards. Dinesh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABSQqC1TquS43P4Of%3DkKdf%2BKEQM%3DSi0xrXeMoVmwhxmKaANh6A%40mail.gmail.com.
