Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau is a plant in the Acanthaceae family, order Lamiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau

Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau

Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau is a spreading herb used as a vegetable in East Africa and for traditional medicine in Nigeria.

Family
Genus
Asystasia
Order
Lamiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau

Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau is a ground-spreading herb that can be annual or perennial, and it bears opposite leaves. Its leaves are eaten as a vegetable in Kenya and Uganda. The plant is also used in traditional medicine in Nigeria.

Photo: (c) satish nikam, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by satish nikam · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Lamiales Acanthaceae Asystasia

More from Acanthaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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