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|accepted_name=Mikania
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=3: 1742. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Climbing hempweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Mikania
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mikania]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Josef Gottfried Mikan, 1743–1814, professor, University of Prague
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 459, 546
|treatment_page=page 545
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines </b>(perennial, sometimes suffrutescent) [non-viney perennials, shrubs], to 300[–1500+] cm. <b>Stems</b> usually twining to scrambling (terete, striate, or [4-] 6-angled, sometimes winged), branched. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite [whorled]; petiolate [sessile]; blades palmately 3[–7]-nerved [pinnately nerved], ± ovate or deltate-ovate to triangular [linear], margins entire or undulate to dentate or toothed to lobed, faces glabrous or puberulent to tomentose, often gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> discoid, in corymbiform [paniculiform, racemiform, spiciform, thyrsiform] arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± cylindric, [1–]2–3[–4] mm diam. (usually each subtended by 1 bractlet). <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 4 in ± 2 series (outer pair imbricate over inner pair), not notably nerved, lanceolate, linear, or oblong (bases often swollen), ± equal. <b>Receptacles</b> flat (glabrous), epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 4; corollas usually white, sometimes pink to rose or purplish, throats funnelform or campanulate, lobes 5, linear or triangular to deltate; styles: bases slightly, if at all, enlarged, glabrous, branches ± filiform [weakly clavate]. <b>Cypselae</b> ± prismatic, [4–]5[–10]-ribbed, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of [20–]30–60 (white, buff, pinkish, or purplish) barbellulate to barbellate bristles in 1–2 series (distinct or basally connate). <b>x</b> = 16–20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Overwhelmingly neotropical (9 species in the Old World tropics);some temperate North American and South American.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 450 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>All species of <i>Mikania</i> in the flora belong to M. sect. <i>Mikania</i> in the sense of W. C. Holmes (1996).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=holmes1981a
|text=Holmes, W. C. 1981. Mikania (Compositae) of the United States. Sida 9: 147–158.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=holmes1993a
|text=Holmes, W. C. 1993. The Genus Mikania (Compositae: Eupatorieae) in the Greater Antilles. Fort Worth. [Sida Bot. Misc. 9.]
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=holmes1996a
|text=Holmes, W. C. 1996. A proposed sectional classification for Mikania (Eupatorieae). In: D. J. N. Hind et al., eds. 1996. Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew 1994. 2 vols. Kew. Vol. 1, pp. 621–626.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=robinson1934a
|text=Robinson, B. L. 1934. Mikania scandens and its near relatives. Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 55–71.
}}
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems 6-angled, gray-tomentulose to tomentose; leaf blades ovate to deltate; heads 7–10 mm; phyllaries 6–8 mm; corolla lobes linear; cypselae 3–4 mm
|[[Mikania cordifolia|Mikania cordifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems terete to obscurely 6-angled, glabrate to densely pilose; leaf blades triangular to triangular-ovate; heads 4–7 mm; phyllaries 3–6 mm; corolla lobes triangular to deltate; cypselae 1.8–2.2 mm
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves (membranous): apices tapering; phyllaries linear-lanceolate, 5–6 mm; corollasusually pinkish to purplish, 3.5–4 mm; e United States
|[[Mikania scandens|Mikania scandens]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves (subcoriaceous to ± fleshy): apices acute to acuminate; phyllaries lanceolate tonarrowly ovate, 3–4 mm; corollas white, ca. 3 mm; s Florida
|[[Mikania batatifolia|Mikania batatifolia]]
|}
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name=Mikania
|author=Walter C. Holmes
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Overwhelmingly neotropical (9 species in the Old World tropics);some temperate North American and South American.
|reference=holmes1981a;holmes1993a;holmes1996a;robinson1934a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1385.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Mikania
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