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Mikania micrantha (L.) Kunth.
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700-1200 m
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FG Creole: baume celeste. FG Wayapi: yamaka kunami. Guyana: bitter tally, bitter-tally. Surinam: brokobaka. Guyana Patamona: wha-cau-yik, wa-cow-yik.
Mikania micrantha Kunth
Bejuco herbáceo, voluble, que alcanza 10 o más m de largo. Tallos pubescentes, angulosos, estriados. Hojas opuestas; láminas 6-13 × 3-8 cm, ovadas, cartáceas, 3-5-nervadas, el ápice acuminado, la base cordiforme, los márgenes dentados; haz poco lustroso, puberulento; envés puberulento, con la nervación algo prominente; pecíolos sulcados, glabros o puberulentos, tan largos o más cortos que la lámina; pseudoestípulas formando un anillo interpeciolar de segmentos lanceolados, tempranamente deciduos. Capítulos numerosos, pedunculados, dispuestos en cimas corimbiformes o paniculiformes, terminales en cortas ramas laterales; brácteas subinvolucrales subuladas, 2-3 mm de largo, glabras; filarios ovado-oblongos o elípticos, verdes, 3-4 mm de largo; corola blanca, infundibuliforme, poco fragante, 2.5-3 mm de largo; anteras exertas. Aquenios ca. 1.2 mm de largo, gris obscuro a negros, pentagonales; pappus compuesto de numerosas cerdas blancas, 2-3 mm de largo.
Fenología: Coleccionada en flor y fruto de noviembre a febrero.
Estatus: Nativa, localmente común.
This is possibly the species known to the Surinam Tirio as "tah-da-pu-lu" and to the Surinam Wayana as "ku-nah-ne-mah". Synonymy follows Holmes, W.C. 1989. Mikania, pp. 575-582, in Howard, R.A., Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Vol. 6.
Mikania micrantha Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.) 4: 134. 1818.
Herbaceous vine, twining, attaining 10 m or more in length. Stems pubescent, angular, striate. Leaves opposite; blades 6-13 × 3-8 cm, ovate, chartaceous, 3-5-nerved, the apex acuminate, the base cordiform, the margins dentate; upper surface slightly shiny, puberulous; lower surface puberulous, with the venation somewhat prominent; petioles sulcate, glabrous or puberulous, as long as or shorter than the blade; pseudostipules forming an interpetiolar ring of lanceolate segments, early deciduous. Capitula numerous, pedunculate, arranged in corymbiform or paniculiform cymes, terminal on short lateral branches; subinvolucral bracts subulate, 2-3 mm long, glabrous; phyllaries ovate-oblong or elliptical, green, 3-4 mm long; corolla white, infundibuliform, slightly fragrant, 2.5-3 mm long; anthers exserted. Achenes ca. 1.2 mm long, dark gray to black, pentagonal; pappus of numerous white bristles, 2-3 mm long.
Phenology: Collected in flower and fruit from November to February.
Status: Native, locally common.
Selected Specimens Examined: Acevedo-Rdgz., P. 13; 7052; 7136; 9406; 10529; 10626; 10751; 11885; V‚lez, I. 3196.
Mikania scandens sensu auct., non (L.) Willd.
"Climbers, stem glandular-hispid. Leaves opposite, 5-8 x 4-6 cm, ovate, apex acute, base cordate, crenate, glabrate; petiole 2-4 cm long. Heads 5 mm long, in axillary panicles; bracts biseriate, outer 2 smaller, inner 3-5, 4 x 1.5 mm, ovate, obtuse. Flowers 3-5, similar, bisexual; corolla 3 mm long, tubular, lobes 5, glandular, white; anthers linear. Achenes 2 mm long, 5-ribbed, black, glabrous; pappus 4 mm long, many, hispid."
Habit: Scandent shrub
Isotype for Mikania subcymosa Gardner
Catalog Number: US 1066772
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. Gardner
Year Collected: 1840
Locality: Villa de Natividade., Goiás, Brazil, South America
- Isotype: Gardner, G. 1847. London J. Bot. 6: 448.
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Notes: Forest plantations and also in the plains in moist localities