Other conspecific taxa:

• Iresine diffusa f. lindenii (0 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (=) Celosia paniculata L.
• (=) Iresine paniculata (L.) Kuntze

Common names:

• Juba's-bush  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• bredinho-difuso  (Source: Arq Inst Biol SPaulo) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida, Louisiana]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, [Saba, St. Eustatius] Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

References:

1. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
2. Burger, W. C., ed. Flora costaricensis. 1971- (F CostaR)
3. FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
4. Funk, V. et al. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584. 2007 (L Guiana Shield)
5. Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. Flora of Ecuador. 1973- (F Ecuador)
6. Liogier, H. A. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. 1984- (F PuertoR)
7. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
8. Santos, J. P. dos et al. 2006. Plantas hospedeiras de dípteros minadores em pomar de citros em Montenegro, RS Arq. Inst. Biol. (São Paulo) 73:238
9. Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua)
10. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 1995- (F VenGuay)
11. Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource). (Malezas Mex)
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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=101556. Accessed 8 abril 2026.