Flora of North America species comparison

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Iresine diffusa

Iresine palmeri

Juba's bush

Palmer's bloodleaf
Habit Herbs, annual or weakly perennial, 4–30 dm. Shrubs or vines, at least 3 dm.
Stems

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

sometimes scandent or decumbent, woody nearly throughout, scabrous.
Leaves

opposite;

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

opposite;

blade lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or lance-oblong, 12–60 × 5–17 cm, glabrous.
Inflorescences

panicles, 10–40 cm;

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

pistillate plants with panicles 2.5–6 cm;

bracts and bracteoles ± equaling tepals; staminate plants not seen.
Flowers

pedicellate;

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

tepals green, oval, 1–1.4 mm, herbaceous, apex obtuse, pilose.
Seeds

0.5–0.7 mm.

1 mm.
Utricles

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

exserted, subglobose, 1.7 mm, apex truncate.

Iresine diffusa

Iresine palmeri
Phenology Flowering fall. Flowering spring.
Habitat Hammocks, marshes, other habitats mostly near coast Palm woods
Elevation 0-10 m (0-0 ft) 0-10 m (0-0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; LA; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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from FNA
TX; Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 455. FNA vol. 4, p. 455.
Parent taxa Amaranthaceae > Iresine Amaranthaceae > Iresine
Sibling taxa
I. heterophylla, I. leptoclada, I. palmeri, I. rhizomatosa
I. diffusa, I. heterophylla, I. leptoclada, I. rhizomatosa
Synonyms Hebanthe palmeri
Name authority Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 4(2): 765. (1806) (S. Watson) Standley: J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 395. (1915)
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