Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by botanical name:
| Lactuca | |
| inermis (Wild lettuce) ingabe, lihabe, | |
| Food: | Edible leaves, stem & flower |
| Lycopodium | |
| clavatum | |
| Medicinal: | Toxic but can be used to increase urine flow, & relieve spasms. |
| Loxogramme | |
| Loudetia | |
| simplex | |
| Household: | Thatching |
| Leptochloa | |
| fusca | |
| Fodder: | Pasture and fodder. |
| Leptocarydion | |
| vulpiastrum | |
| Fodder: | Pasture |
| Lepisorus | |
| schraderi (Smooth Lance-fern) gebeleweni, | |
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