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Iresine calea

Botanic Family

Amaranthaceae

Author

(Ibáñez) Standley

Common Names

• Siete Pellejos (El Salvador)
• Flor de Corona (El Salvador)
• Algodoncillo (El Salvador)
• Flor de Jesús (El Salvador)
• Cola de Chivo (El Salvador)
• Cola de Cabr (El Salvador)
• Cometerner (El Salvador)
• Siete Cáscaras (El Salvador)
• Coyontura (El Salvador)
• Tacuquelite (Nahuatl)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Puebla - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• California - USA

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• secondary vegetation
• dry rivercourse
• hedges
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-May

Climbing or erect shrub or sprawling vine with glabrate branches to 5m. Leaves 105mm x 70mm glabrate above pilose beneath. 2mm dirty white dioecious flowers in terminal panicles with bracts & bractlets to 0.6mm long, whitish pilose sepals to 2mm long, pilose flowers with whitish or brownish hairs

Stock food, medicinal, decoration

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• NAF
• FOG
• Standley