Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow (Q2623)

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Mikania scandens is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Mikania
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Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow
Mikania scandens is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Mikania

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    taxon/id/Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow
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    Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow
    Mikania scandens
    (Linnaeus) 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)
    climbing hempvine (English)
    1 reference
    Scoggan, H.J. 1978-79. The Flora of Canada. Parts 1-4. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Botany 7. 4 volumes.
    Mexico
    West Indies (Bahamas)
    Flowering Jun–Dec.
    0–500 m
    Stems obscurely 6-angled to terete, glabrate to densely pilose;
    internodes 8–15 cm.
    Petioles 20–50 mm, glabrous or puberulent.
    Leaf-blades triangular to triangular-ovate, 3–15 × 2–11 cm, bases cordate to hastate, margins subentire to undulate, crenate, or dentate, apices acuminate (tips often caudate), faces puberulent.
    Arrays of heads dense, corymbiform, 12–15 × 12 cm.
    Heads 6–7 mm.
    Phyllaries green or pinkish to purplish, linear to lanceolate, 5–6 mm, apices acuminate (faces glabrous or puberulent).
    Corollas usually pinkish to purplish, sometimes white, 3–5.4 mm, sparsely glanddotted, lobes triangular to deltate.
    Cypselae dark-brown to blackish, 1.8–2.2 mm, densely glanddotted;
    pappi of 30–37 white or pinkish to purplish bristles 4–4.5 mm. 2n = 38.