Eumorpha fasciatus on Mikania scandens, central Florida. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: Pete Dunkelberg Archives] Reference
Introduced plants, such as Psidium guajava, Lantana camara, and Mikania micrantha are serious weeds degrading natural communities. From Wordnik.com. [Fiji tropical moist forests] Reference
Until now, only 6 endemic species, Mikania johnstonii, Argythamnia erubescens, Croton margaritensis, Clerodendrum margaritense, Blakea monticola and Inga macrantha, have been described. From Wordnik.com. [Araya and Paria xeric scrub] Reference
Introduced species such as rats, marine toads, and cats take a toll on native wildlife, and alien weeds, like Mikania micrantha and Solanum torvum, are major threats to natural communities. From Wordnik.com. [Samoan tropical moist forests] Reference
Mikania and Mutisia both belong to the Compositae. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Mutisia, a tendril-climber, compared with Mikania. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Prof. M.K. Hossain from Bangladesh discussed the invasion and allopathic effects of Mikania cordata in Plantation forests of Bangladesh. From Wordnik.com. [PunjabNewsline News] Reference
Mikania scandens is a twining plant: it is another species which, by its leaf-climbing habit, supplies a transition to the tendril-climber Mutisia. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Mutis, with the bejuco del guaco (Mikania guaco), which is the most powerful of all antidotes against the bite of serpents, and of which we were fortunate enough to give the first botanical description. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Into each of these incisions, even while the blood was flowing from them, he dropped the juice of the Mikania, and rubbed it in with fresh leaves of the plant itself; and then, with some tufts of the soft floss of the silk-cotton tree he covered the incisions, so as to stop the bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
I wish I had heard of Mikania being a leaf-climber before your paper was printed (673/6. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
De Candolle thinks that the guaco may be the Eupatorium satureiaefolium of Lamarck; but this Eupatorium differs by its lineary leaves, while the Mikania guaco has triangular, oval, and very large leaves.). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Mikania, a leaf-climber. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Mikania chenopodiifolia, Wild. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
Mikania sp. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
Mikania scandens. (. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
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