Hypericaceae FAMILY

Curculigo pilosa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

The root-stock is held to be non-poisonous-332].

Botanical Description

Curculigo pilosa is an erect, herbaceous, perennial plant growing from a short, stout, rhizomatous rootstock; it produces a cluster of grass-like leaves around 6 - 45cm tall[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - widespread from Senegal to Sudan and Ethiopia, south to Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar

HabitatWidely dispersed in seasonally marshy savannah[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].