Clematis vitalba

Taxonomy

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Clematis

Species

vitalba

Distribution

Worldwide in temperate climate areas

Utility

Food and alternative medicine. Used to make rope during the Stone Age. Once, branches were utilized to make baskets and panniers while sprigs were smoked as a cigarette. Biodiversity

Flowering time

V - VII

PollenPollenDefinition: The pollen grain is the Gymnosperms and Angiosperms male germ element. Its function relates to the sexual fertilization....
characteristics

Group

MonadMonadDefinition: solitary pollen grain derived from a tetrad or polyad, which normally break down into individual pollen grains....

Simmetry

Radial

PolarityPolarityDefinition: pollen characteristics to possess two endowed poles of equal or different features....

IsopolarIsopolarDefinition: pollen grain with the proximal pole like the distal one....

ExineExineDefinition: external layer of the sporoderm consisting of ectexine plus endexine....
sculpturing

VerrucateVerrucateDefinition: ref. sculture. Sporoderm with verrucae or prominences whose width exceeds their height....

ApertureApertureDefinition: opening to allow pollen tube germination. Zone of pollen grain surface in which the exine thins or completely lacks....

Tricolpate

Polar viewPolar viewDefinition: view from which it is possible to observe the shape, sculpture, cytoplasm and apertures of a pollen grain in polar position....

SubcircularSubcircularDefinition: kind of pollen shape in polar view....

Equatorial view

Circular

Clematis vitalba

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