Never mind Wendy! :) Yes, those facebook groups are very interesting and great for expanding my knowledge of the Atlantic Forest!
Thanks Wendy for your efforts, Caetano Troncoso Oliveira was the same botanist who had identified my plant on my facebook thread, I gave the...
Yes, Wendy the photo of your first link does has a resemblance to my plant, but an important difference is that the venation is really different....
You're right I see now I had missed the 'a' in the word Mikania! Oh yes, for sure, the Mikania genus is renown for being vastly variable. Not...
No Wendy, I meant the site 'Flora SBS' that had photos of the plant that now have been taken down: Pesquisar resultados - FloraSBS not the...
Just found out that the photos of Mikania hemisphaerica on the Flora SBS, that caused my confusion, have been taken down, so they probably were...
Yes, it is amazing how this plant seem to be such a slow grower Wendy, only making one offset per year! While previous years I met this plant once...
Hi, wcutler, nice to hear this plant is still under your attention! :) I joined a Brazilian plant identification group on Facebook a couple of...
Thank you very much, I have signed up with JStor, but access to the text was much easier through your last link. In the text it says that...
Thanks Wendy, I'll have a look at it again, but I don't have much hopes.. Austrocritonia velutina does occur in the Rio state but the herbarium...
Yes, I came upon the same photo in my searches Wendy, but the photo is of very poor quality, no details visible and like you say it doesn't give...
I am doubting now again, maybe I should just keep it with Mikania species.. May I give a link to the other forum, where JRsbugs (Janet Rowley)...
Apart from all the differences pointed out already there is also the different venation and arrangement of the flowers that don’t resemble the...
Yes, I know Wendy, I've seen that too, but cannot see a true resemblance to my plant, even with some of the leaves of similar shape in that photo,...
Hi, I have this mystery plant I met years ago (2010) in the Atlantic Forest in the state Rio de Janeiro. I only found this single one in the dense...
