Fabaceae FAMILY

Smithia elliotii

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Smithia elliotii is a decumbent annual or perennial plant with stems that can be 40 - 180cm long[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant forms adventitious roots[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 466 Title Useful Plants of Nyasaland Publication Author Williamson J. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland. Year 1955 ISBN Description Brief details of the uses of almost 500 species of plants. ]. The plant is commonly harvested from the wild for local use as a food. The leaves are commonly sold in local markets[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - ?Nigeria, ?Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, eastern DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar.

HabitatMainly in coarse grassland and other dense herbage in glades; also on the edge of rain forest and swamp forest, along streams, in ditches and in swamps, sometimes even growing in standing water; at elevations from 1,150 - 2,700 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 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. ].