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Mikania banisteriae
Mikania banisteriae
- Botanic Family
- Asteraceae
- Author
- de Candolle
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Minas Gerais
- Mato Grosso
- Pará
- Paraná - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Shrubland
- forest
- riverside
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Twining woody liana with woolly stems. Denticulate leaves to 200mm x 40mm, scabrid above & woolly-sericeous beneath. Panicles to 250mm x 300mm, with white or lavender aromatic flowers, flower heads 8mm long with scales 4.5mm long, pilose phyllaries to 50mm long, corolla to 4.4mm with tube 2.5mm & teeth 2mm. PIlose achenes 3.5mm long with whitish pappus bristles to 5mm long becoming fulvous.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Standley