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Bidens reptans
Bidens reptans
- Botanic Family
- Asteraceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) G. Don
Common Names
- McKatty Weed (Jamaica)
- Romerillo de Costa (Cuba)
- Liane Jaune
- Herbe Z'aiguille-liane
- Mozotillo (Costa Rica)
- Barbasco
- Mozote
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentinas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- S. Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Chiapas
- Guerrero
- Jalisco
- Michoacán
- Oaxaca
- Tamaulipas
- Veracruz
- Yucatan - Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest margins
- shrubland
- primary forest
- cloud forest
- hedgerows
- montane areas
- coastal
- thickets. Coastal
Flowering Times
- Oct-Jul (Puerto Rico
- Dec-Feb & Jun-Sep (Jamaica)
- Dec-Mar (Belize)
- Aug-Feb (Costa Rica)
Fruiting Times
- Dec-Feb & Jun-Sep (Jamaica)
- Nov (Puerto Rico)
Liana to 30m, low climbing or clambering twining herbaceous perennial vine, herb, tree or subshrub often rooting at stem nodes, with hairy young branches, quadrangular bristly stems. Coriaceous 3-7 foliolate tomentose pinnate leaves to 192mm x 164mm, leaf segments to 48mm wide, serrate or toothed leaflets to 80mm x 35mm, glabrate above with white felt beneath. Terminal & lateral corymbs, panicles or cymes of bright yellow scented flowers, flower heads to 60mm wide with 8-12 bracts outer bracts to 9mm x 2.2mm, 6-13 inner bracts to 9mm x 3mm, 5-8 yellow ray florets to 27mm x 90mm, 18-38 disc florets to 9.5mm long. Dark brown to black glabrous achenes to 16mm x 0.75 with hairy margins, pappus 4mm long.
Medicinal
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- BMJ
- Gleason & Moldenke
- SAFIO
- Fieldiana
- Standley