Clematis uncinataChamp. ex Benth.

WFO wfo-0000610834 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Clematis uncinata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-08 / obs. 104603895
Clematis uncinata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32043114
Clematis uncinata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63163202
Clematis uncinata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63163206
Clematis uncinata, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. e Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60528247
Clematis uncinata, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32472302
Clematis uncinata, photographed by chiuluan
fig. g chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61885236
Clematis uncinata, photographed by Lin Scott
fig. h Lin Scott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15978128

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis uncinata is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Clematis uncinata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Vietnam VIE ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Clematis alsomitrifolia Hayata
  • Clematis chinensis var. uncinata (Champ. ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Clematis drakeana H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Clematis floribunda (Hayata) Yamam.
  • Clematis gagnepaniana H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Clematis leiocarpa Oliv.
  • Clematis okinawensis Ohwi
  • Clematis okinawensis var. trichocarpa (Tamura) Tamura
  • Clematis ovalifolia T.Itô ex Maxim.
  • Clematis recta var. uncinata (Champ. ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Clematis trichocarpa Tamura
  • Clematis uncinata var. biternata W.T.Wang
  • Clematis uncinata var. coriacea Pamp.
  • Clematis uncinata var. floribunda Hayata
  • Clematis uncinata var. ovatifolia (T.Itô ex Maxim.) Ohwi
  • Clematis uncinata var. ovatifolia (Ito ex Maxim.) Ohwi ex Tamura
  • Clematis uncinata var. taitongensis Y.C.Liu & C.H.Ou
  • Clematis uncinata var. uncinata
  • Clematis zhejiangensis R.J.Wang

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.