EcoFlora - Mikania

Mikania
Family: Asteraceae	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources 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. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Mikania acutissima Media not available Map not Available Mikania alba Map not Available Mikania amblyolepis Map not Available Mikania anethifolia Map not Available Mikania angularis Map not Available Mikania argyreiae Map not Available Mikania aromatica Media not available Map not Available Mikania aschersonii Map not Available Mikania banisteriae Map not Available Mikania barahonensis Map not Available Mikania batataefolia Map not Available Mikania batatifolia Map not Available Mikania brachycarpa Map not Available Mikania broadwayi Map not Available Mikania buddleiaefolia Map not Available Mikania bulbisetifera Map not Available Mikania burchellii Map not Available Mikania caldasana Map not Available Mikania campanulata Map not Available Mikania camporum Map not Available Mikania capensis Map not Available Mikania capricorni Media not available Map not Available Mikania carteri Media not available Map not Available Mikania castroi Media not available Map not Available Mikania chaetoloba Map not Available Mikania chenopodifolia Map not Available Mikania chenopodiifolia Map not Available Mikania chevalieri Map not Available Mikania chlorolepis Map not Available Mikania citriodora Map not Available Mikania clematidiflora Map not Available Mikania cochabambana Map not Available Mikania comarapensis Map not Available Mikania concinna Map not Available Mikania congesta Map not Available Mikania conglomerata Map not Available Mikania cordata Map not Available Mikania cordifolia Map not Available Mikania crispiflora Map not Available Mikania cristata Media not available Map not Available Mikania cyanosma Map not Available Mikania decora Map not Available Mikania dentata Map not Available Mikania desmocephala Media not available Map not Available Mikania dioscoreoides Map not Available Mikania dissecta Map not Available Mikania diversifolia Map not Available Mikania ecuadorensis Map not Available Mikania eriophora Map not Available Mikania eucosma Map not Available