Mikania Willdenow (Q2622)

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Mikania is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Eupatorieae
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Mikania Willdenow
Mikania is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Eupatorieae

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    taxon/id/Mikania Willdenow
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    Mikania Willdenow
    Mikania
    Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Climbing hempweed (English)
    Overwhelmingly neotropical (9 species in the Old World tropics)
    some temperate North American and South American
    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.
    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 glanddotted.
    Heads discoid, in corymbiform [paniculiform, racemiform, spiciform, thyrsiform] arrays.
    (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.
    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 glanddotted;
    pappi persistent, of [20–] 30–60 (white, buff, pinkish, or purplish) barbellulate to barbellate bristles in 1–2 series (distinct or basally connate).