Taxon: Mikania cordata (Burm. f.) B. L. Rob.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Economic importance:

• Animal food: potential as forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:166. 1992)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Samoa [w.]; Solomon Islands

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:166.
• Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt. 1984. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13. (L Cape)
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:194–196.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Holmes, W. C. 1982. Revision of Old World Mikania (Compositae). Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 103(2):228–233.
• King, R. M. & H. Robinson. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 22. (Gen Eupat)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mikania cordata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mikania cordata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Eupatorium cordatum Burm. f. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Mikania cordata (Burm. f.) B. L. Rob.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316382 (09 February 2010)

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