Taxon: Mikania micrantha Kunth
Genus: Mikania
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 316383
Place of publication: F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 4:105[folio]. 1818; 4:134[quarto]. 1820
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Jul-2001
No species priority site assigned.
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- 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:
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FL*, HI*°, MA*, NC*, PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- bittervine (Source: F LAnt
) – English
- climbing hempweed (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English
- mile-a-minute (Source: State Noxweed Seed
) – English
- liane-serpent (Source: F LAnt
) – French
- carobinha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- guaco-verdadeiro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa [s.], Tamaulipas [s.] Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama Caribbean: Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Lucia Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas, Goias, Rio de Janeiro Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru Southern South America: Argentina
Naturalized: - naturalized in tropical Asia, s.e. United States, West Indies, Mascarenes, Melanesia, Polynesia, & Hawaii
- Fieldiana, Bot.
9:36–39.
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
4:2139.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Turner, B. L.
1997. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 1: Eupatoreae.
Phytologia Mem.
11:159.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
Check other databases for Mikania micrantha Kunth:
- Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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.
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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?316383 (09 February 2010)
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