Iresine pacifica Standl.

Iresine pacifica Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 96. 1916
Erect shrub, much branched, the branches ascending, slender, striate, green, glabrous except about the inflorescence, there very sparsely shortvillous; petioles slender, 4-11 mm. long ; leaf -blades broadly ovate or rhombic-ovate to lance-oblong, or the uppermost lanceolate, 3.5-10.5 cm. long, 1.3-4 cm. wide, acute to long-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, thin, glabrous, or very sparsely short-villous along the veins beneath; flowers polygamo-monoecious, in broad, open, much branched, sparsely leafy panicles, the branches elongate, very slender, ascending or spreading, the spikelets short, nearly all sessile, their rachises lanate; bracts and bractlets less than half as long as the flowers, suborbicular, rounded at the apex, short-villous, brown; sepals oval-oblong, 1.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, 3-nerved, densely pilose with long soft brownish hairs; filaments shorter than the sepals, the staminodia less than half as long as the filaments, narrowly triangular, entire; style short, the stigmas slender; seed orbicular, slightly compressed, 0.6 mm. broad, black and shining.
Type locality : Near Manzanillo, Distribution: Sinaloa to Colima.