Aneilema spekei

C. B. Clarke

CommelinaceaeLeaves

Aneilema spekei

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Aneilema spekei

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Meise Botanic Garden

Aneilema spekei

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Meise Botanic Garden

What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves

The leaves are eaten.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant.

Africa, East Africa, Uganda,

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 tropical herb in the Commelinaceae family with edible leaves.

Names & Synonyms

Ekoropot, Odipa ikong

References (1)

Masters, T., 2021, Traditional food plants of the upper Aswa River catchment of northern Uganda—a cultural crossroads. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2021) 17:24

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