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Muehlenbeckia platyclada; photograph Paul F, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYPaul F, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Muehlenbeckia platyclada (F.Muell.) Meisn.

Ribbonbush; Centipede-plant; Tapewormplant

Polygonaceae · New Guinea, Solomon Is.

No habitat climate
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Muehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Paul F, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMuehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Paul F, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMuehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Sagnik Dutta Roy, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMuehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Sagnik Dutta Roy, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMuehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Sabarni Sarker, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMuehlenbeckia platyclada, photograph Henrique Pinto Macedo, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 22 photographs ›

Summary

Muehlenbeckia platyclada (synonym Homalocladium platycladum), known as centipede plant, tapeworm plant or ribbonbush, is a species of plant in the knotweed family from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is also naturalized in other tropical regions, including Puerto Rico, India, Bolivia, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Pakistan.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Muehlenbeckia platyclada", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 15 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 15 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Guinea, Solomon Is. · introduced: Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, Assam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Fiji, New Caledonia, Mexico Southwest, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Ecuador · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-6.667, 147 · in the densest population, 7 records (47% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 14 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 237 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Paul F, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Sagnik Dutta Roy, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Sabarni Sarker, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Henrique Pinto Macedo, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Other Muehlenbeckia 11 in the reference

Muehlenbeckia adpressa Muehlenbeckia adpressa Climbing Lignum Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerMuehlenbeckia astonii Muehlenbeckia astonii Shrub Pohuehue Photo: CC BY, Liadan DickieMuehlenbeckia australis Muehlenbeckia australis Pōhuehue Photo: CC BY-SA, Christopher StephensMuehlenbeckia axillaris Muehlenbeckia axillaris Creeping Wire Vine Photo: CC BY, Hannah WhittallMuehlenbeckia complexa Muehlenbeckia complexa Wire Plant Photo: CC BY, William HarlandMuehlenbeckia ephedroides Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Leafless Pōhuehue Photo: CC BY, Liadan DickieMuehlenbeckia gunnii Muehlenbeckia gunnii Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Kym NicolsonMuehlenbeckia hastulata Muehlenbeckia hastulata Wirevine Photo: CC BY, Gabriela CartesMuehlenbeckia sagittifolia Muehlenbeckia sagittifolia Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrea GantzerMuehlenbeckia tamnifolia Muehlenbeckia tamnifolia Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeMuehlenbeckia volcanica Muehlenbeckia volcanica Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY, Yuri Sofronov

Names & registers

Also known as Calacinum platycladum; Coccoloba platyclada; Exocarpos ceramicus; Homalocladium platycladum; Muehlenbeckia platyclados and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polygonaceae
Described by
(F.Muell.) Meisn.
Native to
New Guinea, Solomon Is.
Wild records
15 in range · 14 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 51 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (43 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium, 5 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2215 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata not taken: two items answeredasked 2026-10-22not taken: two items answered to the older names' GBIF records (Q3268129, Q50849690)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 84 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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