Iresine domingensis Urb.

Iresine domingensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 337. 1907
Scandent shrub, the branches grayish, glabrate, the branchlets densely pubescent; petioles 5-8 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate-oval or oval, 3.5-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, subcuneately narrowed at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex, chart aceous, glabrate above, appressed-pubescent beneath; flowers perfect, in a loose, much branched panicle 20 cm. long or shorter, the branches spreading, the spikelets 4 mm. thick, 2.5-4 mm. long, usually pedunculate, the rachis densely pubescent; bracts and bractlets deltoid-reniform, about half as long as the sepals, villosulous; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acutish, 1.6-1.7 mm. long, obscurely 3-nerved, densely pilose, the hairs whitish, about as long as the sepals; filaments 0.8 mm. long, the staminodia subquadrate, truncate, obscurely crenulate; style very short, the stigmas short and stout.
Type locality: Haiti. Distribution: Haiti.