Lepidium transvaalense
Marais
Brassicaceae Edible: Leaves
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Meise Botanic Garden
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Description
A small herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has several stems from a woody crown. It grows 15-25 cm tall. The leaves near the base have 9-15 lobes that are again divided. The stem leaves are 2.5-5 cm long.
Edible Uses
The leaves are edible.
Distribution
It is a subtropical plant. It is rare in Swaziland.
Where It Grows
Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
References (5)
- Guillarmod, J., 1966, 1971, (As Lepidium capense)
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 97
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 39
- Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora
- 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
