Taxon: Mikania micrantha Kunth

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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:

AL*, FL*, HI*°, MA*, NC*, PR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bittervine   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• climbing hempweed   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• mikania-vine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• mile-a-minute   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• wei gan ju   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• 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)
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa [s.], Tamaulipas [s.]
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

• AFRICA
  Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena - Ascension
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 4:2139.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holmes, W. C. 1982. Revision of Old World Mikania (Compositae). Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 103:233–237.
• Holmes, W. C. 1990. The genus Mikania (Compositae-Eupatorieae) in Mexico. Sida, Bot. Misc. 5:24–28.
• Holmes, W. C. 1993. The genus Mikania (Compositae-Eupatorieae) in the Greater Antilles. Sida, Bot. Misc. 9:35–38.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• 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.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mikania micrantha.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mikania micrantha.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mikania micrantha.

Check other web resources for Mikania micrantha Kunth:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Images:

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

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• 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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