Iresine stricta Standl.

Iresine stricta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 97
1916.
Erect shrub, 3-8 dm. high, sparsely branched, the branches suberect, slender or stout, striate, densely stellate-canescent ; petioles stout, 2-6 mm. long; leaf -blades oblong-oval, ovate-oblong, broadly ovate, or ovate-rhombic, 1.3-3.5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, stellate-canescent on the upper surface when young, glabrate in age, densely stellate-canescent beneath, subrugose, the veins coarse, prominent beneath, ascending; flowers dioecious, the panicle on a long naked peduncle 10-15 cm. long, narrow, the primary branches elongate and ascending or usually very short; spikelets elongate, slender, sessile, their rachises lanate; bracts and bractlets of the staminate flowers half as long as the sepals, broadly ovate, pilose, the sepals oblong, obtuse or acute, pilose, hyaline, dull-white; filaments equaling the sepals, the staminodia short, fimbriate at the apex; bracts and bractlets of the pistillate flowers equaling the sepals, pilose, the sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long, acuminate, 3-nerved, white, densely long-pilose, the hairs exceeding the perianth, soft, white; stigmas elongate, filiform; seed 1 mm. long, reddishbrown, shining.
Type locality: Near Tehuacan, Puebla. Distribution: Dry, rocky soil, Oaxaca and Puebla.

Iresine stricta là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Dền. Loài này được Standl. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1916.