Iresine

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Amaranthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Iresine

• Description

  
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  Description - Erect or clambering herbs, shrubs, and less frequently small trees. Leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate; blades simple; stipules absent. Flowers unisexual or bisexual, pedicellate, clustered in cymes along axillary or terminal panicles; bracts and bracteoles persistent. Tepals 5, with a tuft of hairs at the base on the outer surface; stamens 5, the filaments united at the base to form a short staminal tube; interstaminal appendages present or absent; ovary superior, uniovulate, rounded, the stigmas divided in 2 elongate, filiform branches, sessile or subsessile. Fruit a membranaceous, subglobose, circumscissile utricle. Seed solitary, globose or lenticular, shiny, naked. A genus of approximately 40 species of neotropical distribution.