Herbs or suffrutescent, twining or scrambling perennials
Leaves opposite, subsessile or petiolate, frequently cordate or sagittate at base
Capitula discoid, 4-flowered, in spikes, racemes or corymbs and often panicled
Involucre cylindric; bracts 4 or 5, in 1 row, linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, sometimes glandular-hairy
Receptacle small, naked
Corolla white; tube cylindric below, sometimes dilated at base; lobes 5, short, ovate
Anthers linear, obtuse at base; with ovate, membranous, apical appendage
Style with branches elongate, clavellate or filiform
Cypselas pentagonal, prismatic or tapering downward
Pappus of many scabrid bristles
x = 9 (7, 10, 17, 19) (aneuploids, high polyploidy, B-chromosomes)
Nomenclature:
Mikania Willd.
Willdenow: 1742 (1803)
Harvey: 58 (1865)
Merxmüller: 111 (1967)
Hilliard: 54 (1977)
Holmes: 213 (1982)
King & Robinson: 419 (1987)
Bremer et al.: 647 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 430, pantropical
Southern Africa: Species 3, occurring in N Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
References:
BREMER, K., ANDERBERG, A.A., KARIS, P.O. & LUNDBERG, J. 1994. Tribe Eupatorieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae. Flora capensis 3
HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
HOLMES, W.C. 1982. Revision of the Old World Mikania (Compositae). Botanische Jahrbücher 103
KING, R.M. & ROBINSON, H. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 22
MERXMÜLLER, H. 1967. Asteraceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 139
WILLDENOW, C.L. 1803. Species plantarum 3. Nauk, Berlin
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