The International Clematis Register and Checklist 2002 Sixth Supplement © 2018 The Royal Horticultural Society 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE, United Kingdom www.rhs.org.uk International Clematis Registrar: Duncan Donald All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder. ISBN 9781907057823 Printed and bound in the UK by Page Bros, Norwich (MRU) The previous supplement Fifth( Supplement) was published 15 September 2015 Cover: Clematis ‘Columella’ Atragene Group drawing by Victoria Matthews The International Clematis Register and Checklist 2002 Sixth Supplement Introduction page 1 Registrar’s foreword page 1 Acknowledgements page 1 Notes on the entries page 1 Register and Checklist Cultivar epithets pages 2–55 Review of Groups pages 56–111 Raisers, registrants and others pages 111–113 Introduction Acknowledgements The cultivar epithets listed hereinunder were I acknowledge the help from many people whose registered between 1st January 2015 and contributions have helped make this Supplement 31st December 2017; registered cultivars have been possible, not least by volunteering registrations entered in boldface. Other clematis names – timeously. Special thanks to Junko Oikawa for her eg unregistered cultivar or Group epithets, synonyms, work translating Japanese PBR descriptions. mis-spellings – are also published, as part of the Checklist function of this publication. Notes on the entries Registration is a voluntary procedure and does not The format of entries is similar to the lay-out adopted confer any legal protection on the plant. However, as for The International Clematis Register and Checklist the International Cultivar Registration Authority for (2002), except that, with a detailed review of Groups Clematis, the Royal Horticultural Society urges all included herewith, the description of the hybridizers, raisers and other introducers to register horticultural classification used in rec-ent years has their cultivar or Group names to reduce the potential been omitted from this issue. confusion caused by new epithets which involve the same or very similar epithets to existing names. a) Parentage Where known, the seed parentage Epithets which conform to the Articles (and, ideally, is given first and identified by “(s)”, then the the Recommendations) of the latest edition of the larger multiplication sign, then the pollen International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated parent; otherwise, the parents are listed in Plants [ICNCP] (currently ed. 9, 2016) are acceptable alphabetical order. for registration. Registration is free of charge and b) Roles The sequence and explanation of the should take place before a plant is released or abbreviations is as follows: S: Selected by; described in a catalogue. A certificate can be issued on R: Raised by; G: Grown to first flowering by; request. N: Named by; I: Introduced by; Registration forms are available as a download from REG: Registered by. the Society’s website, www.rhs.org.uk, or from c) Colour Numbers and letters (usually in Duncan Donald, International Registrar for clematis, parentheses) refer to the RHS Colour Chart c/o RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, (1966 [reprinted 1986], 1995, 2001, 2007 or UK; email: [email protected]; tel. +44 (0)1445 781717. 2015 editions). Colour names preceding a Colour Chart reference are from A Contribution toward Standardization of Color Names in Horticulture: Registrar’s foreword Application of the Universal Color Language to As predicted in the last issue, this Supplement the Colors of theRoyal Horticultural Society’s contains a checklist of as many as possible established Colour Chart by R.D. Huse and K.L. Kelly, Group definitions, giving my ruling on their effective edited by D.H. Voss, The American status. I hope that, by the time the Seventh Rhododendron Society, 1984. Supplement is published, it might prove possible to include details of the revised classification currently d) Nomenclatural Standard Sharp colour undergoing debate and trialling under the aegis of the images clearly showing the characteristics of the International Clematis Society. plant(s), and/or, if practicable, pressed flowering specimens, which, with the completed form, As always, I should welcome new registrations and constitute a permanent, definitive record further information to augment or enhance existing (nomenclatural standard) of the cultivar or records. Group. Those held in the RHS Herbarium at Wisley are allocated a designated WSY reference number. International Clematis Register & Checklist 2002 6th Supplement 1 Cultivar Register and Checklist ‘Akane-hime’ Early Large-flowered Group See ‘Senhime’ Acropolis Trade designation of ‘Evipo078’ ‘Akiko’ Early Large-flowered Group AMENDED ENTRY ‘Addisonii Pink’ Viorna Group REVISED ENTRY Parentage: ‘The President’ (s) × unknown (open- Parentage: Presumably selection from addisonii pollinated) I: Kasugai Garden Centre (c.2007) R: Toyohei Saigusa (pre–1980), I: Shonan Clematis Garden Nursery Fls urn-shaped, 1.5–2cm across, nodding. Sepals 4; 彰子 outside pink-purple, with white margins around Original script: . A Japanese female name, this mouth, smooth (not ribby); inside white; 2–2.5cm epithet honours the breeder’s wife. long, thick and fleshy, margins fused at base, tips recurved. Anthers yellow. Stems 0.5–1m. FL: May–Oct. Akira Published refs: Sugimoto Total Cat. of Clematis Trade designation of ‘Evipo093’ (2007–2008): 34 Although correctly cited in 3rd Supplement (2009) as a ‘Alan Blyth’ Viticella Group AMENDED ENTRY non-accepted epithet under ICNCP, 2004: Art. 19.13, Nomenclatural Standard: colour print from that rule was subsequently changed to allow partially registrant (WSY0108128) Latin names, so this epithet is now acceptable (ICNCP, 2016: Art. 21.11). Unaccepted spellings: ‘Albida’ Atragene Group REVISED ENTRY ‘Ajisoniipinku’; ‘Ajisony Pink’. Original script: アジィ See koreana var. carunculosa ‘Mount Chiri White’ ソニーピンク. [Note that, although this was written instead as アジソニーピンク when the cultivar was ‘Alhambra’ submitted for Japanese PBR in 2006, the application R: Y. Aihara (pre–2009) failed, so that alternative spelling is deemed to have An unregistered cultivar with this epithet has been provisional and not established (ICNCP, 2016: apparently been distributed in Japan; further details Art. 27.6).] are being sought. Original script: アルハンブラ. aethusifolia ‘Peveril’ R: B. Fretwell (pre–2007), I: Westphal alpina ‘Peveril’ Atragene Group Clematiskulturen (2013) R: B. Fretwell (pre–1990) Fls semi-double or double, 2–3cm across, outward- Fls bell-shaped, drooping. Sepals 4, white, “broader facing or nodding, scented. Sepals 4, pale yellow. than alpina sibirica”. Staminodes pale yellow. Stems herbaceous, scrambling, Published refs: Clem. Int. 2016: 129 to 0.8–1.2m. Lvs pinnate to 2–pinnate, with 3–7 lflet Trade: White Alpina pairs. FL: June–Oct., on current year’s wood. Non-accepted name (ICNCP, 2016: Art. 30.1), Published refs: Westphal Hauptkatalog Clematis ‘Peveril’ having already been established for recta (2013): 13, as aethusifolia ‘Peveril’ BFCCAEP ‘Peveril’. Online in www.peverilclematis.com, in Non-accepted name (ICNCP, 2016: Art. 30.1), 2007, Barry Fretwell described how this cultivar was ‘Peveril’ having already been established for recta ‘Peveril’. initially marketed as “white alpina” but later, during the 1980s, named ‘Peveril’ to distinguish it from ‘Agnessa’ Early Large-flowered Group other white forms then appearing. It is worth noting R: F.M. Westphal, I: F.M. Westphal though that this name does not appear in any of Clematiskulturen (2013) Fretwell’s published catalogues; alpina ‘sibirica’ [sic.] Fls flat or flattish, 12–14cm across, upward- or was sold from Peveril Nursery as a creamy-white outward-facing. Sepals 6, sky-blue with silvery blue variant from 1983 onwards but Fretwell in 2007 bar, ovate, margins slightly ruffled or wavy, tips acute distinguished alpina ‘Peveril’ as having broader with cuspidate apex. Stamens numerous; filaments sepals, “giving a better display than, say, the narrow- and anthers white; connectives blue. Deciduous sepalled C. ‘alpina sibirica’ [sic.]”. It may be therefore climber with stems 2.2–3.2m. FL: May/Jun on that this purported name had never been formally previous season’s growth, Aug/Sep on current year’s. established (at least, until published in Clem. Int. Published refs: Westphal Hauptkatalog Clematis 2016: 129). (2013): 6, with image, with added code-name CCMWAGN (but as CCMW03 on p.20) ‘Amaneku’ Parentage: florida var. sieboldiana (s) × ‘Allanah’ ‘Akafuji’ Early Large-flowered Group R: M. Nakanishi (2009), G: M. Nakanishi (2015), R: T. Oikawa (pre–2009) N: M. Nakanishi (2015), REG: M. Nakanishi (2017) Fls flat or flattish, 10–14cm across. Sepals bright red Fls flat, 13–15cm across, upward-facing, opening to red-purple. Deciduous climber with stems 2–3m. sepals unfurling sequentially. Buds pale green, FL: May–June on previous year’s growth, Aug–Sept pointed. Sepals 6, pale purple with paler speckling on current year’s. and a pale purple-red bar, elliptic, overlapping half, Original script: 赤冨士. margins smooth, tips long-pointed and apiculate. Filaments cream; connectives dark purple; anthers white. FL: spring; early blooms from terminal buds, 2 International Clematis Register & Checklist 2002 6th Supplement later from lower down stems.