taxonID	type	description	language	source
BE9642EF85BA57979DF49A3E9078CE64.taxon	description	Figs 5, 6, 7	en	Li, Jun-Ping, Ma, Qing, Ma, Dan-Dan, Wang, Jun-Feng, Xie, Wen-Yuan, Wu, Dong-Hao, Ying, Shang-Jiao, Chen, Zheng-Hai, Li, Pan (2025): Clematis danxiacola (Ranunculaceae), a new species from the Danxia landform area in Zhejiang Province, China. PhytoKeys 266: 97-115, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.154626
BE9642EF85BA57979DF49A3E9078CE64.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This new species resembles C. terniflora but differs in several characteristics including leaflet blades abaxially densely persistently appressed-puberulous (vs. sparsely puberulous and glabrescent), sepals cuneate or oblanceolate, apex subtruncate and premorse (vs. obovate – oblong to oblong, apex ± acute to obtuse and entire), pistils (5 –) 8 – 12 (vs. 4 – 7), achene ovate, compressed but slightly swollen in the middle, margin not or slightly thickened (vs. broadly elliptic to obovate, strongly compressed, margin distinctly thickened).	en	Li, Jun-Ping, Ma, Qing, Ma, Dan-Dan, Wang, Jun-Feng, Xie, Wen-Yuan, Wu, Dong-Hao, Ying, Shang-Jiao, Chen, Zheng-Hai, Li, Pan (2025): Clematis danxiacola (Ranunculaceae), a new species from the Danxia landform area in Zhejiang Province, China. PhytoKeys 266: 97-115, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.154626
BE9642EF85BA57979DF49A3E9078CE64.taxon	description	Morphological description. Evergreen woody vine. Stem with shallowly 6 – 12 - grooved; branchlets densely gray appressed-puberulous, glabrescent except at nodes; axillary buds triangular – ovate, densely gray puberulous. Leaves opposite, 1 - pinnate, usually 5 - foliolate, sometimes 2 - pinnate on new shoots in summer – fall; petiole 3 – 7 cm long, base with nodes usually dark purple or gray, puberulous; leaflet blades thick-papery or subleathery, ovate, 3.5 – 8.0 (– 9.5) × 2.0 – 5.0 (– 6.2) cm, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate, subrounded to shallow cordate, margin entire, slightly revolute when drying, adaxially appressed-puberulous when young, glabrescent except for basal veins, lustrous, basal veins slightly prominent, abaxially densely persistently appressed-puberulous, basal veins prominent when dry; leaflets of summer – fall shoots thick leathery, ovate – lanceolate or lanceolate, 2.5 – 10.0 × 1 – 3 cm, apex long acuminate, base cuneate; petiolules 0.7 – 2.0 cm long, base usually dark purple, sometimes tendrilous. Paniculate cymes axillary or terminal, usually many-flowered, 5 – 15 (– 30) cm long; bracts usually narrowly lanceolate to linear, 0.7 – 1.5 (– 2.3) × 1.5 – 4.0 mm, petiolate, rarely leaflike, both surfaces appressed-puberulous. Flowers 2 – 3 cm in diameter, pungent aromatic, bisexual, erect; buds ovoid, apex acute. Pedicel 1 – 2 cm long, together with peduncle and rachis densely persistently appressed-puberulous. Sepals 4, white, spreading, cuneate or oblanceolate, 10 – 14 × 4 – 6 mm, apex subtruncate and premorse, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely puberulous, margin velutinous. Stamens 26 – 49, white, glabrous, 6 – 11 mm long; filaments 3 – 7 mm long; anthers linear, 2 – 4 mm long, apex obtuse or minutely apiculate. Pistils (5 –) 8 – 12; ovaries pubescent; style densely villous. Achenes usually 3 – 7, brown, ovate, compressed but slightly swollen in the middle, 5.4 – 6.3 × 3.0 – 3.7 mm, densely ascending pubescent, margin not or slightly thickened; persistent styles 2.5 – 3.0 cm long, plumose, whitish (Figs 5 – 7).	en	Li, Jun-Ping, Ma, Qing, Ma, Dan-Dan, Wang, Jun-Feng, Xie, Wen-Yuan, Wu, Dong-Hao, Ying, Shang-Jiao, Chen, Zheng-Hai, Li, Pan (2025): Clematis danxiacola (Ranunculaceae), a new species from the Danxia landform area in Zhejiang Province, China. PhytoKeys 266: 97-115, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.154626
BE9642EF85BA57979DF49A3E9078CE64.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Danxia landform where the species occurs.	en	Li, Jun-Ping, Ma, Qing, Ma, Dan-Dan, Wang, Jun-Feng, Xie, Wen-Yuan, Wu, Dong-Hao, Ying, Shang-Jiao, Chen, Zheng-Hai, Li, Pan (2025): Clematis danxiacola (Ranunculaceae), a new species from the Danxia landform area in Zhejiang Province, China. PhytoKeys 266: 97-115, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.154626
BE9642EF85BA57979DF49A3E9078CE64.taxon	distribution	Distribution and ecology. C. danxiacola occurs in Yongkang County of Jinhua City, and Qingtian County, Jinyun County, and Liandu District of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, China (Fig. 8). The species inhabits sunny slopes or ridges of low hills of the Danxia landform within the elevation range 50 – 550 m a. s. l, typically climbing on tree canopies or shrubs at forest edges or roadsides. The substrate consists of soil derived from weathered purple sandy conglomerate.	en	Li, Jun-Ping, Ma, Qing, Ma, Dan-Dan, Wang, Jun-Feng, Xie, Wen-Yuan, Wu, Dong-Hao, Ying, Shang-Jiao, Chen, Zheng-Hai, Li, Pan (2025): Clematis danxiacola (Ranunculaceae), a new species from the Danxia landform area in Zhejiang Province, China. PhytoKeys 266: 97-115, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.154626
