Rennera limnophila
Merxm.
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Roots, Tubers
The roots are eaten raw or roasted.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in hot dry areas. It grows in areas with a marked dry season. The dry season can be 6-11 months. It is often on seasonally waterlogged areas over limestone rock material It grows between 800-1,300 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Southern Africa,
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 herb or small shrub. It grows 40 cm high. It is a rounded plant and is woody. The leaves are narrow with teeth along the edge. The flowers are in heads at the ends of the branches. They are yellow.
Names & Synonyms
Murombe, Otjiekwa
References (1)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 14th April 2011]
