Iresine

Accepted species 39 Documented here 10 Family Amaranthaceae

Accepted species 39 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Iresine diffusa Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. 189 documented
Iresine rhizomatosa Standl. 30 documented
Iresine calea (Ibáñez) Standl. 29 documented
Iresine ajuscana Suess. & Beyerle ex Suess. 24 documented
Iresine palmeri (S.Watson) Standl. 19 documented
Iresine heterophylla Standl. 18 documented
Iresine orientalis G.L.Nesom 8 documented
Iresine angustifolia Euphrasén 5 documented
Iresine arbuscula Uline & W.L.Bray 4 documented
Iresine schaffneri S.Watson 3 documented
Iresine interrupta Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Iresine leptoclada (Hook.f.) Henrickson & S.D.Sundb. 2 below the evidence gate
Iresine nigra Uline & W.L.Bray 2 below the evidence gate
Iresine alternifolia S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine arenaria Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine argentata (Mart.) D.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine arrecta Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine chrysotricha (Suess.) Borsch, Flores Olv. & Kai Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine discolor Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine domingensis Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine flavescens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine frutescens Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine grandis Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine hartmanii Uline 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine hebanthoides Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine herbstii Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine herrerae Conz. & S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine laurifolia Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine lindenii Van Houtte 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine macbridei Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine muscoides (Sw.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine papantlana Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine pedicellata Eliasson 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine poeppigiana Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine pringlei S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine rotundifolia Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine stricta Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine tomentella Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iresine weberbaueri Suess. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.