Rubiaceae FAMILY
Leptactina benguelensis
Leptactina benguelensis
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Leptactina benguelensis is a perennial, wiry subshrub that can be more or less erect and much-branched, or prostrate and forming cushions 30 - 200cm in diameter and 30 - 120cm tall from a thick woody 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 its edible fruit and nectar, which are consumed locally.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSouthern Africa - Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.
HabitatBrachystegia - Isoberlinia and Baikiaea woodlands, sometimes by rivers, fringing thicket etc. But also in grassland, often on kopjes and granite hillside; at elevations from 540 - 1,740 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. ].