Wolffia cylindracea
Hegelm.
AraceaeLeaves
What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves ?, Vegetable
The leaves are used as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in rock pools. It occurs between 300-1,000 m above sea level.
Africa, Angola, North America, South Africa, USA,
Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Angola, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bahamas, Botswana, Belize, Canada, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Grenada, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Comoros, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, El Salvador, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, St Vincent, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A taro family herb. It grows in water. The fronds are small and 8 mm long by 5 mm wide.
Notes
There are 11 Wolffia species. Also in the family Lemnaceae.
References (5)
- Encyclopedia of Life.
- Lemnac. 123. 1868
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/econ.pl (10 April 2000)
- Wiersema, J. H. & Leon, B., 2013, World Economic Plants. A Standard Reference CRC Press. 2nd Ed. p 729
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
