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Mikania
Family: Asteraceae
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Walter C. Holmes in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
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. All species of Mikania in the flora belong to M. sect. Mikania in the sense of W. C. Holmes (1996).

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Heads discoid, the fls 4, all tubular and perfect; invol narrow, of 4 principal bracts and occasionally a few short outer ones; receptacle small, naked; cor white to pink or ochroleucous; style branches papillate, elongate, linear, acutish, with short ventromarginal stigmatic lines near the base; achenes 5- angled; pappus a single series of numerous capillary bristles, usually connate at base; mostly perennial twining vines, with opposite, simple, usually petiolate lvs and numerous small heads. 200+, mainly trop. Amer.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Mikania alba
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Mikania amblyolepis
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Mikania anethifolia
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Mikania angularis
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Mikania argyreiae
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Mikania aromatica
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Mikania aschersonii
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Mikania banisteriae
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Mikania barahonensis
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Mikania batataefolia
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Mikania batatifolia
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Mikania brachycarpa
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Mikania broadwayi
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Mikania buddleiaefolia
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Mikania bulbisetifera
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Mikania burchellii
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Mikania caldasana
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Mikania campanulata
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Mikania capensis
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Mikania capricorni
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Mikania chaetoloba
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Mikania chlorolepis
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Mikania citriodora
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Mikania clematidiflora
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Mikania cochabambana
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Mikania comarapensis
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Mikania concinna
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Mikania congesta
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Mikania conglomerata
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Mikania cordata
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Mikania cordifolia
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Mikania crispiflora
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Mikania cristata
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Mikania cyanosma
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Mikania decora
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Mikania dentata
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Mikania desmocephala
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Mikania dioscoreoides
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Mikania dissecta
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Mikania diversifolia
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Mikania eriophora
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Mikania ferruginea
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Mikania flabellata
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Mikania fragilis
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Mikania fragrans
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Mikania globosa
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Mikania glomerata
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Mikania gonzalezii
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Mikania granulata
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Mikania guaco
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