Mikania

Eumorpha fasciatus on Mikania scandens, central Florida

The Panda's Thumb: Pete Dunkelberg Archives 2010

Until now, only 6 endemic species, Mikania johnstonii, Argythamnia erubescens, Croton margaritensis, Clerodendrum margaritense, Blakea monticola and Inga macrantha, have been described.

Araya and Paria xeric scrub 2008

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.

Samoan tropical moist forests 2008

Introduced plants, such as Psidium guajava, Lantana camara, and Mikania micrantha are serious weeds degrading natural communities.

Fiji tropical moist forests 2007

He honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily, -- then, the gentian, and the _Mikania scondens_, and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

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.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Don Pablo recognised them as the leaves of a plant of the genus _Mikania_, and known popularly as the "vejuco de guaco."

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

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 (_Bombax ceiba_), he covered the incisions, so as to stop the bleeding.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

Don Pablo recognised them as the leaves of a plant of the genus _Mikania_, and known popularly as the "vejuco de guaco."

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

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.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850