Asteraceae FAMILY
Mikania micrantha
Mikania micrantha
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Mikania micrantha is a very vigorous, climbing plant with slender, much branched, twining stems that are seldom more than 2cm in diameter[ 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. It is also cultivated as an ornamental and ground cover plant, though because of its ability to spread as a weed these uses should be discouraged outside of the plant's native range.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeThroughout most of tropical and subtropical south and central America and the Caribbean.
HabitatDisturbed forest, stream banks, roadsides, pastures, plantations and cultivated crops in humid, sunny or shaded habitats at elevations up to 2,000 metres[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ].