Dicotyledon | Literature for Anredera cordifolia
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family | Bibliography |
Anredera cordifolia | |
Common name(s): `uala hupe, Madeira vine, mignonette vine |
General Information | ||
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Distribution | Native from Paraguay to southern Brazil and northern Argentina, widely cultivated in tropical regions.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
Habit |
Plants from thick rhizomes; stems usually 3-6 m long. |
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Leaves |
Leaves ovate or sometimes lanceolate, 1-11 cm long, 0.8-8 cm wide, producing small axillary tubercles at base. |
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Flowers |
Racemes simple or 2-4-branched, 4-30 cm long, pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, each flower subtended by a minute persistent bract; receptacle cup-shaped by 2 persistent hyaline bracteoles, the upper 2 greenish white, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, ca. 1-2 mm long; corolla white, the lobes ovate-oblong to elliptic, 1-3 mm long; stamens white; style white, 3-cleft nearly to base. |
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Fruit |
Fruit unknown. |
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Chromosomes |
2n = 24 |
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