Hydrolea macrosepala
A. W. Benn.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Erik Slootweg
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Meise Botanic Garden
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Vegetable
The plant is used as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in wet grassland savannah. It can grow in pools and flooded rice fields.
Africa, Benin, Guinea, Guinée, Guinea-Bissau, West 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
An annual herb in the Hydroleaceae family found in tropical regions, particularly in wet grassland savannah, pools, and flooded rice fields.
Notes
Also put in the family Hydrophyllaceae.
References (1)
- Achigan-Dako, E, et al (Eds), 2009, Catalogue of Traditional Vegetables in Benin. International Foundation for Science.