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Magnoliopsida
Mikania guaco Bonpl.
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Isotype for Mikania zonensis R.M. King & H. Rob.
Catalog Number: US 2572251
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. D. Dwyer & A. G. Robyns
Year Collected: 1965
Locality: Albrook Site, US Army Tropic Test Center, Panama, Central America
- Isotype: King, R. M. & Robinson, H. 1974. Phytologia. 28: 275.
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Holotype for Mikania napensis S.F. Blake
Catalog Number: US 1692981
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Y. Mexia
Year Collected: 1935
Locality: Archidona, Napo Canton. [Province previously recorded as Napo-Pastaza. [?? Archidona is in Canton Archidona not Canton Napo], Archidona, Napo, Ecuador, South America
Elevation (m): 650 to 650
- Holotype: Blake, S. F. 1938. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28: 484.
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Isotype for Mikania napensis S.F. Blake
Catalog Number: US 2250441
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Y. Mexia
Year Collected: 1935
Locality: Near Archidona, Archidona, Napo, Ecuador, South America
Microhabitat: Dense forest.
Elevation (m): 650 to 650
- Isotype: Blake, S. F. 1938. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28: 484.
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Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
Whole plant: Ingredient in a decoction for syphilis. Leaf: Mixed in rum in a decoction applied to snakebite and wound of stingray; softened in a flame and applied on itching area of cutaneous eruptions by the French Guiana Boni. Excellent tonic; for a stimulant tea. French Guiana Amerindians use the alexiteric leaf-juice as an excellent antidote to snakebite.
FG Creole: guaco, radie grage, radie serpent, zerb grage. FG Wayana: lewe epit, yamaka hunami. Guyana: errawarang, errawareng.