Mikania sp.
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Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
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Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
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Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Panga panga – Chitengo road, Gorongosa National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Umunthu Camp, Mzuzu
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Umunthu Camp, Mzuzu
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Umunthu Camp, Mzuzu
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Umunthu Camp, Mzuzu
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Vumba rd nr Eagle School Junction
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Vumba rd nr Eagle School Junction
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Native |
Description:
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Perennial, climbing or trailing, twining herbs. Leaves opposite, triangular-ovate, less than 3 times as long as wide; base cordate sometimes with auriculate lobes; margin shallowly crenate-serrate. Florets white, in cylindric capitula, together forming axillary, congested branched heads on peduncles 2-4 cm. |
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Notes:
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See note under the genus description of Mikania. |
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Often in riverine vegetation and along margins of evergreen forest and in moist woodland. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Apparently widespread in tropical Africa, South Africa, Madagascar and Comoro Islands. |
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Literature:
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Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 24. As Mikania cordata
Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Dowsett-Lemaire, F., Congdon, C., Branch, B., Collins, S., Curran, M., Dowsett, R,J., Fishpool, L., Francisco, J., Harris, Kopp, M. & de Sousa, C. (2012). Mt Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Page 72.
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Mikania sp.
Copyright:
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-25
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2025).
Flora of Botswana: Species information: Mikania sp.. https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=231030, retrieved 17 February 2025
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