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A creeping perennial.
Mikania micrantha H.B.K.
Common Name : Mile a minute
Family : Asteraceae
Much-branched, scrambling, twining, slendervine;
herbaceous to semi-woody, branched,
ribbed, sparsely pubescent or glabrous.
Simple, opposite, glabrous, thin, broadly ovate,
shallowly or coarsely toothed, triangular or
ovate, tip acuminate, blade 4-13 cm long,
2-9 cm wide, 3-7 nerved; petioles tendriliform,
2-9 cm long .
Inflorescence a corymbose panicle with
subcymose branches, 3-6 cm long by 3-10 cm
wide; flowers small, white or cream-colored,
actinomorphic, 4.5-6 mm long, in leaf axils or
on terminal shoots.
Achene; somewhat flattened, elliptic, 4-ribbed
with short, white hairs along the ribs, with a
tuft of white pappus at the summit, glandular,
1.2-1.8 mm long, dark grey to black.
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