Bitter vine (Mikania micrantha)

#Dlium Sembung rambat or bitter vine (Mikania micrantha) is a plant species in Asteraceae, crawling or wrapped around trees, perennial that grows up to 27 mm per day in tropical climates, branched stems where heart-shaped or triangular leaves are arranged in pairs and a plant can cover more than 25 square meters in a few months.

M. micrantha has square-shaped stems or longitudinal bones, light green, many branches and has fine hairs. The stems have segments for lengths of 75-215 mm, each segment has a pair of leaves, new shoots and flowers. New roots grow when the segments come in contact with the soil.

The leaves are in pairs and facing each other. Strands do not have hair, heart-shaped or triangular with jagged edges, length 30-125 mm, width 15-60 mm. Petiole is 1-6 cm long and has fine hairs.

The flower panicle grows from the armpit of the leaf and the tip of the stem, having 3-15 mm long stems. Each flower head has 4 minor flowers. The crown is greenish-white, tubular and measures 4-6.5 mm. Black anthers grayish with white.

Formation of seeds begins 17-21 days after flowering, brown to black, linear-oval, five angles, 2 mm long and equipped with 32-38 soft white feathers to fly long distances in the wind or stick to animal hair.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Eupatorieae
Subtribe: Mikaniinae
Genus: Mikania
Species: Mikania micrantha
Forms: Mikania micrantha f. hirsuta, Mikania micrantha f. micrantha

Arabic: كرمة مرة
Chinese (Simplified): 微甘菊
Chinese (Traditional): 小花蔓澤蘭 - 薇甘菊
English: Bitter vine, mile-a-minute
Hebrew: גפן מרה
Hindi: कड़वी बेल
Indonesian: Sembung Rambat
Japanese: ツルヒヨドリ
Korean: 쓴 포도나무
Kwéyòl: kacho
Portuguese: guaco
Russian: Микания мелкоцветковая
Spanish: Guaco, bejuco de criatura
Thai: ขี้ไก่ย่าน

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Location: Cangkringan, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia.

Aryo Bandoro

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