Checklist of Bolivian Compositae - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Mikania hookeriana DC. var. crassicaulis Steyerm., Fieldiana, Bot. 28(3): 658 (1953). Type: [Venezuela:] ‗Type in
herb. Chi. Nat. Hist. Mus., collected on Ptari-tepui, steep wooded slopes just below dry ridge and shrubby
growth, southeast-facing slopes, state of Bolívar, alt. 1585-1600 m., November 10-11, 1944, Julian A.
Steyermark 60015, ―vine with thickened fleshy flowering axis; leaves coriaceous, deep green above, pale
green below‖ ‗. Holotype: F (1388855).
Belize, Bolivia (Bení, ?La Paz), Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Guadaloupe, Lesser Antilles, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela.
Disturbed vegetation, secondary rain forest.
0–2000 m.
September–February.
Mikania hookeriana DC. var. badieri (DC.) B. L. Rob., Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 52 (1934) = Mikania hookeriana
DC.
Mikania hookeriana DC. var. cardiophylla B. L. Rob., Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 53 (1934) = Mikania hookeriana
DC.
Mikania hookeriana DC. var. crassicaulis Steyerm., Fieldiana, Bot. 28: 658 (1953) = Mikania hookeriana DC.
Mikania hookeriana DC. var. kittsiana (Urb.) B. L. Rob., Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 52 (1934) = Mikania hookeriana
DC.
Mikania hookeriana DC. var. platyphylla (DC.) B. L. Rob., Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 52 (1934) = Mikania
hookeriana DC.
Mikania hostmanii Miq., Stirp. Surinam. Select. : 189 (1851) = Mikania cordifolia (L.f.) Willd.
Mikania houstoniana (L.) B. L. Rob., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 42: 47 (1906).
Eupatorium houstonianum L., Sp. Pl.: 836 (1753). Type: [Mexico:] ‗Habitat in Vera Cruce.‘ Lectotype (selected
by King & Robinson in Woodson & Schery, 1975: 973): Herb. Clifford: 396, Eupatorium 6 (BM-000646954);
isolectotype: MW).
Eupatorium fruticosum Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8: Eupatorium no. 6 (1768). Type: [Mexico:] ‗The sixth sort grows
naturally at La Vera Cruz in America, from whence the late Dr. Houston sent me the seeds.‘ Holotype: BM –
see type of Eupatorium houstonianum L. cited above.
Mikania houstonis Willd., Sp. Pl. 3: 1742 (1803). Type: ‗Habitat in Vera Cruce, Jamaica inter fruticeta. L.‘
Holotype: B-W (15085). Note: there are apparently two labels on this single sheet, one numbered 448, the
other 1169, the former with ‗Humboldt)‘ written on it.
Willoughbya houstonis (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 373 (1891).
Mikania guatemalensis Standl. & Steyerm., Publ. Field. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 23: 105 (1944). Type:
‗Guatemala: Dept. Izabal: Puerto Barrios, at sea level, February 25, 1905, C. C. Deam 40.‘ Holotype: F
(200592).
Mikania sanjacintensis V. M. Badillo, Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 10(No. 68): 298 (1946). Type: [Venezuela:] ‗Edo.
Mérida: Montaña de San Jacinto, al norte del río Chama, 2195–2375 m., mayo 19 de 1944 (J. Steyermark
56665)‘. Holotype: VEN; isotype: F (1388856). Note: King & Robinson (1987: 556) and Robinson & Homes
(2008: 245) included this name within the synonymy of M. hookeriana, a different position to that held by
Holmes (1990).
Bolivia (?), Colombia, ?Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela.
Mikania houstonis Willd., Sp. Pl. 3: 1742 (1803) = Mikania houstoniana (L.) B. L. Rob.
Mikania huaco Rieux ex Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 3: 422 (1826), nom. nud. = Mikania guaco Humb. & Bonpl.
Mikania huitzensis Standley & Steyerm., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 23: 260 (1947) = Mikania
cordifolia (L.f.) Willd.
Mikania hylibates B. L. Rob., Cont. Gray Herb. 77: 52 (1926) = Mikania hookeriana DC.
Mikania imrayana Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. I. : 363 (1861) = Mikania hookeriana DC.
Mikania karuaiensis V. M. Badillo, Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 10: 296 (1946) = Mikania psilostachya DC.
Mikania kavanayensis V. M. Badillo, Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 10: 300 (1946) = Mikania banisteriae DC.
*Mikania lanuginosa DC., Prodr. 5: 201 (1836). Type: ‗Z in brasiliae prov. Sancti-Pauli. ... (v.s. in h. Mus. reg.
Par. à Mus. imp. Bras. sub n. 425 miss.)‘. Holotype: P; isotype: G-DC (fragments of a leaf and a portion of an
inflorescence).
Willoughbya lanuginosa (DC.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 372 (1891).