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Iresine interrupta

Botanic Family

Amaranthaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Guatemala
• Tlaxcala - Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan-May Dec (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Jun

Perennial climbing or reclining shrub with glabrate branches, glabrescent leaves 150mm x 100mm. Cream 1mm dioecious flowers with bracts 1.5mm long in panicles, whitish villous staminate sepals to 2mm long. Pistillate flowers with bracts to 1.5mm long & villous sepals to 1.5mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• NAF
• FOG