WorldFloraDB - Mikania scandens

Characteristics

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 gland-dotted, lobes triangular to deltate. Cypselae dark brown to blackish, 1.8–2.2 mm, densely gland-dotted; pappi of 30–37 white or pinkish to purplish bristles 4–4.5 mm. 2n = 38.

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Twining herbaceous vine to 5 m, puberulent and somewhat atomiferous to subglabrous; roots fleshy, fascicled; leaves petiolate, deeply cordate, acuminate, entire or sinuately few-toothed, palmately veined, 2.5–14 × 1.5–8.5 cm; infls small and numerous, corymbiform, on axillary peduncles; invol 4–5.5 mm; fls white or pinkish; achenes 1.5–2.5 mm; 2n=38. Climbing on bushes in moist places; on the coastal plain (or near the coast) from Me. to Fla., Ill., and Tex., s. to trop. Amer.; locally inland to Mich., Ind., and Ky.; pantropical. July–Oct.

A climber. It can grow 5 m long.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

climber

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.3

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

0.4

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows throughout the tropics.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	animal food environmental use food medicinal poison social use
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Analgesics (aerial part), Anti-inflammatory agents (aerial part), Central nervous system depressants (aerial part), Analgesics (flower), Anti-inflammatory agents (flower), Analgesics (leaf), Anticoagulants (leaf), Anti-inflammatory agents (leaf), Diarrhea (leaf), Liver diseases (leaf), Wound healing (leaf), Analgesics (root), Anti-inflammatory agents (root), Hemostasis (shoot), Anti-inflammatory agents (stem), Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Circumscission (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Analgesics (unspecified), Scorpion stings (unspecified), Snake bites (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	7 - 14
Germination temperacture (C°)	22
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-35
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Images

Habit

Leaf

Mikania scandens leaf picture by Eli Small (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:233204-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000009030
COL ID	43BLM
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	448111
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Mikania angulosa Mikania scandens subvar. mollis Mikania menispermea Mikania batataefolia Willoughbya scandens Mikania pubescens Mikania scandens var. pubescens Mikania scandens var. scandens Eupatorium scandens Mikania scandens

WorldFloraDB 2024

Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.

Climbing hempvine (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Mikania