2339.000 Iresine P. Browne

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, petiolate. Inflorescence of small spikes aggregated into panicles. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, white or straw-coloured, very small. Perianth 5-partite; usually woolly in fertile flowers. Stamens 5, united at the base. Fruit a 1-seeded indehiscent utricle.

Comment: Mostly cultivated for the coloured foliage

Worldwide: 80 species in tropical and temperate regions but especially America and Australia.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
herbstii Hook.	Description, Image
lindenii Van Houtte

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