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Iresine diffusa

Iresine diffusa

Botanic Family: Amaranthaceae
Author: Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow

Common Names

Yerba de la calentura (Mexico)
Zactezxiu (Mayan)
Zacxiu (Mayan)
Hierba de Gato (Honduras)
Siete Pellejos (El Salvador)
Coyontura (El Salvador)
Coyontura de Pollo (El Salvador)
Taba de Güegüecho (El Salvador)
Ilusión or Macán Borrachero or Patepava or Plumaje or Plumilla or Plumilla Grande or Plumilla Silvestre or Pulmonaria or Zorrito (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

Argentina
Bahamas
Belize
Bolivia
Bahia
Minas Gerais
São Paulo - Brazil
Cayman Islands
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Hispaniola
Honduras
Jamaica
Leeward Islands
Lesser Antilles
Veracruz - Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Trinidad & Tobago
N. Carolina
Florida
Lousiana
New Mexico
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
Virgin Islands - USA
Venezuela
Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

Secondary forest
cloud forest
disturbed areas
forest remnant
coastal
thickets
woodland
forest edge
pasture
riverside

Flowering Times

Jan
Feb
Mar
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Oct
Dec Sep-May (Puerto Rico) Mar-Apr (New Mexico)

Fruiting Times

Jan Sep-May (Puerto Rico)

Annual or perennial dioecious nearly glabrous herbaceous erect, climbing, clambering or sometimes creeping glabrous herb or subshrub to 7m with ridged or angled stems. Pubescent or glabrous leaves to 217mm x 120mm, capsule 1mm long. Tiny creamy-white unisexual flowers in terminal or axillary panicles to 30mm x 2mm with whitish hairs & bracts to 0.5mm to 1.5mm long, glabrous calyx, tepals cream or whitish to 0.8mm long, sepals to 4mm long. Pinkish female flowers to 1.5mm x 1.2mm, glabrous calyx, tepals cream or whitish to 0.8mm long, sepals to 4mm long. Male flowers to 1mm x o.5mm with 5 sepals to 1mm x 0.5mm. Fruit to 1.5mm x 1mm.

Medicinal, ornamental

Further References

Mobot
Neotrop
FB
Fedde
The Plant List 2
VOPR
NAF
FOSEUS
FOPE
USNH
FOG
SAFIO
Standley
Flora de Colombia