Rubiaceae FAMILY
Fadogia stenophylla
Fadogia stenophylla
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Fadogia stenophylla is a perennial plant with a single, or more usually several, rather short unbranched more or less woody stems growing 6 - 40cm tall from a slender creeping woody rhizome[ 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 edible fruit is gathered from the wild for local consumption.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeTropical Africa - DR Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.
HabitatMainly found in open grassland and dambos, and grassland with Protea, Annona, Lannea etc., also on Brachystegia woodland edges, in areas subjected to annual burning, usually on laterite or Kalahari Sand at elevations from 1,250 - 2,150 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. ].