Mikania

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Mikania

• Description

  Description - Herbaceous twining vines, or some tropical species shrubs, with opposite, petioled leaves, and discoid, mostly cymose-paniculate heads of white or pink flowers. Heads 4-flowered. Involucre oblong, of 4 slightly unequal narrow bracts. Receptacle small, naked. Corolla regular, its tube slender, the limb campanulate, 5-cleft. Anthers entire and obtuse at the base. Style-branches elongated, acutish. Achenes truncate, 5-angled. Pappus of numerous capillary roughish bristles in 1 or 2 series. [In honor of J. G. Mikan, 1743-1814, professor at Prague.] About 150 species, natives of America. Type species: Mikania hastata (L.) Willd.