Mikania cordata

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Mikania

Vines (perennial , sometimes suffrutescent ) [non-viney perennials, shrubs ], to 300[-1500+] cm. Stems usually twining to scrambling (terete , striate , or [4-] 6-angled, sometimes winged ), branched. Leaves cauline; opposite [whorled ]; petiolate [sessile]; blades palmately 3[-7]-nerved [pinnately nerved], ± ovate or deltate-ovate to triangular [linear ], margins entire or undulate to dentate or toothed to lobed , faces glabrous or puberulent to tomentose , often gland-dotted. Heads discoid , in corymbiform [paniculiform , racemiform , spiciform , thyrsiform] arrays. Involucres ± cylindric , [1-]2-3[-4] mm diam. (usually each subtended by 1 bractlet ). Phyllaries persistent , 4 in ± 2 series (outer pair imbricate over inner pair), not notably nerved, lanceolate, linear, or oblong (bases often swollen), ± equal. Receptacles flat (glabrous), epaleate. Florets 4; corollas usually white, sometimes pink to rose or purplish, throats funnelform or campanulate , lobes 5, linear or triangular to deltate; styles: bases slightly, if at all, enlarged, glabrous, branches ± filiform [weakly clavate ]. Cypselae ± prismatic , [4-]5[-10]-ribbed, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of [20-]30-60 (white, buff, pinkish, or purplish) barbellulate to barbellate bristles in 1-2 series (distinct or basally connate ). x = 16-20.

Species ca. 450: overwhelmingly neotropical (9 species in the Old World tropics), some temperate North American and South American.

All species of Mikania in the flora belong to M . sect. Mikania in the sense of W. C. Holmes (1996).[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,490 meters (0 to 8,169 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: New Zealand Plant Name Database, Flora Malesiana, Flora of Taiwan, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, MesoAmericana, Flora of China Checklist, Tropicos, Vietnam Flora, LCR Editor. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:24F63219-934E-4335-AB3F-8FA8A2920E75

Last scrutiny: 03-Nov-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Mikania

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. congesta (Guaco) · M. cordata (Heartleaf Hempvine) · M. cordifolia (Florida Keys Hempvine) · M. fragilis (Fragile Hempvine) · M. micrantha (American Rope Mikania Micrantha) · M. millei (Poroto Angu) · M. odoratissima (Fragrant Hempvine) · M. pachyphylla (Luquillo Mountain Hempvine) · M. porosa (Puerto Rico Hempvine) · M. scandens (Climbing Boneset Mikania Scandens) · M. stevensiana (Maricao River Hempvine)

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 103, p. 283, p. 379.
• Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 10, p. 11, p. 12, p. 18, p. 7, p. 8.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 298.
• Journal of Hymenoptera research. Washington, D.C.: International Society of Hymenopterists, [1992- url p. 377.
• Montana weed management plan / Helena, Mont.: Montana Dept. of Transportation, 2008. url .
• Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia IUCN url p. 216, p. 467.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 273, p. 274, p. 276.
• Holmes, W. C. 1996. A proposed sectional classification for Mikania (Eupatorieae). In: D. J. N. Hind et al., eds. 1996. Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew 1994. 2 vols. Kew. Vol. 1, pp. 621-626.
• Holmes, W. C. 1981. Mikania (Compositae) of the United States. Sida 9: 147-158.
• Holmes, W. C. 1993. The Genus Mikania (Compositae: Eupatorieae) in the Greater Antilles. Fort Worth. [Sida Bot. Misc. 9.]
• Robinson, B. L. 1934. Mikania scandens and its near relatives. Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 55-71.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 24, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
• Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility: Magnoliophyta

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2668167
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-1685
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:232825-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 316382
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503830
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12847

Footnotes

1. Walter C. Holmes "Mikania". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 459, 545, 546. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 513.450 meters (1,684.547 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,011.080 based on 53 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.