American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning " wooly", referring to the trichome-covered flowers. Bloodleaf is a common name for those species that have colored foliage, and these are often cultivated as ornamental plants. Some species are additives to versions of the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca.
Species
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Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...
accepted the following species:
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Iresine ajuscana
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Suess. & Beyerle
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Iresine alternifolia
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
Iresine arbuscula
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Uline & W.L.Bray
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Iresine arrecta
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Standl.
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Iresine borschii
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' Zumaya & Flores Olv.
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Iresine cassiniiformis
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' S.Schauer
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Iresine chrysotricha
''Iresine chrysotricha'', synonym ''Irenella chrysotricha'', is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland for ...
'' (Suess.) Borsch, Flores Olv. & Kai Müll.
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Iresine cubensis
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
Iresine discolor
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Greenm.
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Iresine domingensis
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Urb.
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Iresine flavescens
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. – Yellow bloodleaf
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Iresine flavopilosa
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Suess.
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Iresine hartmanii
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Uline
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Iresine hebanthoides
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' Suess.
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Iresine herbstii
''Iresine herbstii'', or Herbst's bloodleaf, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. Some call this plant the chicken gizzard plant.
Glowing leaves, Jardim Tropical (Monte, Funchal) (24245316198).jpg
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'' Hook. ex Lindl. – Herbst's bloodleaf
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Iresine heterophylla
''Iresine heterophylla'', or Standley's bloodleaf, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States and also to Mexico. It has been collected from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Cam ...
Iresine jaliscana
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the Americas, American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek language, Greek word ε ...
'' Uline & W.L.Bray
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Iresine latifolia
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
'' (M.Martens & Galeotti) Benth. & Hook.f.
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Iresine laurifolia
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' Suess.
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Iresine leptoclada
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
Iresine nigra
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' Uline & W.L.Bray
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Iresine orientalis
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' G.L.Nesom
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Iresine palmeri
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
Iresine rhizomatosa
''Iresine rhizomatosa'' is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is native to the Americas. In the United States, it has a spotty distribution, being concentrated in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains and along the coast. It is often f ...
'' Standl. – Rootstock bloodleaf
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Iresine rotundifolia
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' Standl.
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Iresine rzedowskii
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", referr ...
'' Zumaya, Flores Olv. & Borsch
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Iresine schaffneri
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the Americas, American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek language, Greek word ε ...
Iresine stricta
''Iresine'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It contains 20 to 25 species, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name is derived from the Greek word εριος (''erios''), meaning "wooly", refer ...
Aerva javanica
''Aerva javanica'', the kapok bush or desert cotton, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It has a native distribution incorporating much of Africa (including Madagascar), and the south-west and south of Asia, and it has become adve ...
'' (Burm.f.) Juss. ex Schult. (as ''I. javanica'' Burm.f. or ''I. persica'' Burm.f.)
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Hebanthe grandiflora
''Hebanthe'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Mexico to southern tropical America. The genus was first described by Carl von Martius.
Species
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Pedersenia macrophylla
''Pedersenia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.
Its native range is mainland tropical America, from Honduras to Paraguay, and Puerto Rico and the Windward Islands.
The genus name of ''Pedersenia'' is in honou ...
'' (R.E.Fr.) Holub (as ''I. macrophylla''
R.E.Fr.
(Klas) Robert Elias Fries (11 July 1876, Uppsala – 29 January 1966, Stockholm), the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries(1794–1878)
and an expert on mushrooms. A Swedish botanist who was a ...
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Pedersenia argentata
''Pedersenia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goos ...
'' (Mart.) Holub (as ''I. argentata'' (Mart.) D.Dietr. or ''I. elatior'' Sieber ex Moq.)
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Pfaffia glomerata
''Pfaffia glomerata'' is a medicinal plant native to Argentina, Bolivia, Cerrado, and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South ...