Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses - LOBELIACEAE
Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005
| Cyphia | |
| bolusii ligagajane, lugagane, | |
| Food: | Edible bulbs |
| elata lugagane, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal emetic. |
| Food: | Edible bulbs |
| var. elata | |
| var. glabra | |
| oblongifolia | |
| Food: | Edible bulbs. |
| Lobelia | |
| erinus (Edging Lobelia) impenjana, incamathela, isidala esiluhlaza, | |
| Cultural: | To wash divining bones |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for colds |
| flaccida (Wild Lobelia) isidala esiluhlaza, | |
| Food: | Vegetable. |
| subsp. flaccida | |
| subsp. mossiana | |
| Monopsis | |
| decipiens (Butterfly Lobelia) isidala somkhuhlane, | |
| Medicinal: | Medicinal for colds, skin diseases & rheumatism |
| stellarioides subsp. stellarioides (Sticky-leaved Monopsis) inamethela, | |
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