Book  (30 Nov 2000)  
 
Clematis javana de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 152. 1817.
Clematis grata Wallich var. lobulata Rehder & E. H. Wilson; C. grata var. ryukiuensis Tamura; C. taiwaniana Hayata.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly 5- or 6-grooved, densely puberulous. Leaves pinnate, 1- or 2-ternate; petiole 4.2--9.7 cm; leaflet blades ovate, deltoid, or elliptic, (2.3--)3.7--7.6(--13) × 2--5.6(--10) cm, papery, often 3-lobed, abaxially usually densely sericeous-puberulous to rarely sparsely puberulous, adaxially sparsely puberulous or glabrous, base cordate, obtuse, or cuneate, margin coarsely dentate, apex acuminate to narrowly acuminate; basal veins abaxially ± prominent. Cymes axillary, usually many flowered; peduncle 3.2--6.4 cm; bracts elliptic to lanceolate, undivided or 3-lobed. Flowers 1.5--2.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 1.6--2 cm, densely puberulous. Sepals 4, white, spreading, obovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, 9--15 × 3--5 mm, abaxially densely puberulous, adaxially puberulous, apex acute. Stamens 4--8 mm, glabrous; anthers oblong, 1.2--2 mm, apex obtuse. Ovaries puberulous. Style 5--7 mm, densely villous. Achenes narrowly elliptic to fusiform, 2.5--3 × 1.2--1.5 mm, puberulous; persistent style 1.6--3 cm, yellowish plumose. Fl. Apr--Sep, fr. Aug--Sep.
Forest margins, along streams, open areas; sea level to 2500 m. Taiwan [Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Papua New Guinea, Philippines].

Book  (1910)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Clematis taiwaniana Hay. Taiwan-botanzuru.

Book  (1879)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 261.  
 
(2) Biternata D. C. = Cl. paniculata, teste Maxim. l. c. 595.
 

Magazine  (Oct 1878)  Page(s) 160.  
 
Arbustes d'Ornement en Espalier ...Clematis. — Toutes les espèces et variétés à grandes fleurs : Cl. lanuginosa, patens, Jakmanni, viticella venosa, Fortunei, bicolor, etc., trop connues pour que nous ayons à en faire l'éloge. Très rustiques, terre sablonneuse. Leur ajouter les Cl. glauca, orientalis, biternata, apiifolia, japonica, moins connues qu'elles ne méritent de l'être.

Book  (1875)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 1.  
 
Clematis L. ....
2. Biternata DC. prod. I, p. 6. C. Virginica Thunb. fl. Jap. 240. – Miq. Prol. fl. Jap. 189.
Hab. in fruticetis : Japonia, loco non indicato, ex Siebold.
Japonice. -

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 157.  
 
The names of some few species which occur in garden catalogues are omitted from amongst the foregoing descriptions, in consequence of the plants they represent being quite unknown to us, having, as we suppose, passed out of cultivation. We particularly refer to C. biternata (white), C. chinensis (dull purple) , C. dahurica ( dull purple) , C. japonica (purple), C. terniflora (white), and C. triternata (white) . It may, we think, be safely assumed that they are unimportant as garden plants. One or two others, as C. Gebleriana (soongarica) and C. jubata, are essentially weedy in character ; while of some few which occur in the Continental trade lists, as C. Blackburniana, C. californica, C. Camusetii, C. indica, and C. Leeana, we have been unable to obtain any reliable information. C. nepalensis, another cataogue name, appears to be applied to C. montana in some plant lists.

Book  (1861)  Page(s) 328.  
 
Japanese Plants... Clematis biternata, D.C.