Iresine diffusa Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

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Celosía paniculata Linn. Sp. Pl. 206.
Climbing among shrubs in hedgerows_near Guauica, Porto Rico
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Whole plant, including sepals and urticle, turns black in drying. Flowers 5 mm. long, the sepals scarcely exceeding the urticle ; leaves deltoid, lanceolate. Easily distinguished from C. .virgata—the only other species likely to be found in the same region-^by the shape of the leaves, and the larger flowers and utricle.	W. T -
Iresine paniculata (Linn.) Kuntze'Rev. Gen. 542.	nine -l’ ^
Celosía paniculata Linn. Sp. PI. 206.	^
Iresine celosioides Lion. Sp. PI. ed. 2: 1456.
40	Field Columbian Museum—Botany, Vol. 2.
Infrequent near Port Antonio, Jamaica (919^ )• Ascending profusely among bushes at The Ovens, Santiago de Cuba (1122,?).
Scrub above the beach-at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1420 $ ).
Abundant and with large densely flowered panicles near San Miguel,
Cozumel (1498 $ ), and in the center of the island (1574 $ ).
These specimens display two groups of forms, one probably representing the type with its leaves acuminate at both ends, and plant glabrous throughout; the other with the older leaves subcordate at the base, more or less pubescent, and with stems manifestly puberu-lent (919, 1122, 1420). W, I „
The New York Botanical Garden Iresine diffusa Willd. det. M. Nee, 1998<<<OCR