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Iresine diffusa (Juba's bush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Iresine diffusa (Juba's bush) is a species of plant in the Amaranthaceae family. Appearance: Herb 1–2 m, stem a little grooved, nodes jointed. Leaves opp, 14 x 7 cm, edge smooth. Flowers minute, greenish-white, panicle 40 cm long, male more open, female compact, 1 mm. Seed 0.5 mm. conabio Folk Use:ovary inflammation in Peru. [Bussman, J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 6:30 2010 ]. Chemistry:Drimenes in aerial parts. [Rios, Magn Reson Chem 43:339 2005 ].
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Infraspecies

Iresine diffusa f. diffusa
Iresine diffusa f. herbstii (Herbst's bloodleaf) (Attributes)
Iresine diffusa f. lindenii
Iresine diffusa var. macrophylla
Iresine diffusa var. spiculigera

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Pseudoparlatoria ostreata (acalypha scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0