Flora of North America species comparison

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Iresine diffusa

Juba's bush
Habit Herbs, annual or weakly perennial, 4–30 dm.
Stems

erect, spreading, or clambering, much-branched, glabrous or sparsely villous.
Leaves

opposite;

blade ovate to lanceolate, 3–14 × 1.5–7 cm, glabrous or villous.
Inflorescences

panicles, 10–40 cm;

bracts and bracteoles 1/3–2/3 as long as tepals.
Flowers

pedicellate;

tepals whitish to stramineous, oblong, 0.6–0.8 mm, hyaline, apex obtuse or rounded, densely villous.
Seeds

0.5–0.7 mm.
Utricles

included in tepals, greenish, ovoid, 0.6–0.8 mm, apex obtuse.

Iresine diffusa
Phenology Flowering fall.
Habitat Hammocks, marshes, other habitats mostly near coast
Elevation 0-10 m [0-30 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
FL; LA; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 455.
Parent taxa Amaranthaceae > Iresine
Sibling taxa
I. heterophylla, I. leptoclada, I. palmeri, I. rhizomatosa
Name authority Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 4(2): 765. (1806)
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