Fabaceae FAMILY
Eriosema ukingense
Eriosema ukingense
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Eriosema ukingense is an erect, perennial, herbaceous plant producing several unbranched or sparsely branched stems 15 - 100cm tall from a woody, tuberous rootstock[ 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 sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeEast tropical Africa - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi.
HabitatSeasonally burnt grassland; dry grassland; Protea grassland with bracken, etc.; at elevations from 2,100 - 2,600 metres[ 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. ].