Empodium plicatum
(Thunb.) Garside
HypoxidaceaeRoots
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Corm, Root
The tuberous roots are eaten raw.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A subtropical herb with grass-like leaves and yellow flowers, characterized by tuberous roots.
Names & Synonyms
Curculigo plicata (Thunb.) Dryand ex W. T. AitonEmpodium plicatum (Thunb.) Salisb.Fabricia plicata Thunb.Forbesia plicata (Thunb.) NelGethyllis plicata (Thunb.) Jacq.Hypoxis plicata (Thunb.) L.f.
References (6)
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 238
- Gillarmod, J., 1971,
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 31
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 65
- Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora (As monophyllum)
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
