Iresine discolor Greenm.

Iresine discolor Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 33: 477. 1898
Erect shrub, much branched, the branches slender, ascending, densely and finely tomentose when young, glabrate in age, the older branches with grayish bark; petioles slender, 3-8 PART 2, 1917] AMARANTH AC3AE 163
mm. long; leaf-blades oblong-ovate, rarely oblong or oval, 2-7 cm., long, 0.6-2.6 cm. wide, acute to obtuse or rounded at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, thin, sparsely tomentulose or glabrate on the upper surface and deep-green, densely whiteor grayish-tomentose beneath, the lateral veins evident, ascending; flowers dioecious, in slender, short, axillary or terminal', naked or leafy panicles; spikelets slender, much elongate, flexuous, rather loosely flowered] their rachises tomentose; bracts and bractlets of the staminate flowers one third as long as the sepals, suborbicular, rounded at the apex, glabrous or sparsely villous, the sepals elliptic-oblong, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse, scarious, stramineous, glabrous, or the inner ones lanate at the base; filaments shorter than the sepals, the staminodia half as long as the filaments, narrowly triangular, denticulate; bracts and bractlets of the pistillate flowers about as long as the sepals, broadly rounded at the apex, hyaline, brownish, glabrous or sparsely villous, the sepals lanceolate to ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, acute, 1-nerved, densely white-villous ; style short, the stigmas slender, elongate; utricle oblong, about equaling the calyx; seed 1 mm. long, yellowish-brown.
Type ix>cality: Santa Catarina Canyon, Oaxaca. Distribution: Oaxaca and Puebla.