Clematis is a town in Victoria, Australia, 42 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area.

Clematis was featured in the 1978 Australian TV movie "The Death Train", starring Hugh Keays-Byrne.

[citation needed] With the blockage of the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge railway by a landslide between Selby and Menzies Creek in 1953, with its summer holiday traffic which the area had come to depend on (with its numerous guest houses), following the exhaustion of the timber resources during the Second World War, and the subsequent closure of many sawmills, declined.

However, Clematis station with its loop siding is primarily used for loading timber for the railway's locomotive fleet and only stops for passengers when requested.

[citation needed] Clematis Post Office opened around 1907 and subsequently closed in 1978, with its services transferred to neighbouring Emerald, Victoria and, along with it, a postcode change from 3159 to 3782.