
Malvaceae FAMILY
Wissadula rostrata
Wissadula rostrata
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
3/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitPerennial
Growth—
Detailed cultivation instructions are not available.
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Wissadula+rostrata>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]Flora Zambesiaca — http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html ↩︎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.
- [2]Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants — http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 ↩︎Terse details of a huge range of useful plants.
- [3]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎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/
- [4]Anti-inflammatory, Analgesic and Antioxidant Activities of Hydro-acetonic Extract from Wissadula amplissima var rost — Kiendrebeogo et al. · 2018 · http://dx.doi.org/10.22159/ijpps.2018v10i8.13416 · ISBN 0975-1491 ↩︎
- [5]Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant activities of the leaves of Wissadula amplissima var rostrata — Mensah A.Y.; Donkor P.O. & Fleischer T.C. · 2011 · http://10.4314/ajtcam.v8i2.63207 ↩︎
- [6]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.