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Mikania vitifolia

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Ceará
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Paraná
• Rio de Janiero
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Rainforest
• secondary forest
• savanna
• gallery forest
• inundated areas
• shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Mar (Trinidad)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Mar

Large herbaceous glabrous twining subshrub or liana to 4m, with striate glabrate stems. Glabrous undulate leaves to 120mm x 120mm with denticulate margins, rusty pubescent ebneath. Terminal & lateral 300mm long puberulous panicles with bracts to 20mm x 10mm, of 6mm perfumed white flowers, phyllaries 5mm long, corolla 5mm long, achenes to 4mm across with dull white pappus becoming reddish-brown.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Fl. do Brasil
• SAFIO
• Standley