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Mikania hookeriana

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

A.P. de Candolle

Common Names

• Liane á Eau
• Liane-gaufre
• Liane Tordue

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Rio Grande do Sul
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Chiapas
• Oaxaca
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamside
• cloud forest
• forest edge in sun
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Feb (Leeward Islands)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr
• Nov

Large glabrous twining herbaceous twiner, subshrub or liana with 6-angled stems. Coriaceous leaves to 110mm x 80mm. Puberulent inflorescence, 6mm creamy-white fragrant flowers in terminal & lateral panicles with bracts & bracteoles, flowerheads to 8mm long, puberulent phyllaries, dirty white corolla to 6mm long. Glabrous achenes to 3mm long crowned with dirty white bristles

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• Standley