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Iresine angustifolia

Botanic Family

Amaranthaceae

Author

Euphrasén

Common Names

• Lagaña de Vieja or Plumilla or Rodilla de Pavo or Verbena (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Mexico
• Trinidad
• California
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverside vegetation
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• coastal shrubland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr All year

Fruiting Times

• All year

Clambering perennial herb, sometimes creeping or erect to 2mwith villous young stems, glabrate branches. Glabrous or puberulous leaves 140mm x 50mm. Bisexual flowers in terminal & axillary panicles to 300mm long with bracts & bractlets, spike to 25mm x 8m, flowers with a bract & 2 bracteoles, flowers to 2mm x 1.5mm, villous sepals to 1.5mm long, white to greenish tepals to 1.5mm x o.7mm. Glabrous capsule 1mm long.

Further References

• Neotrop
• VOPR
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• JAA
• FOG
• SAFIO