Fauna - Vertebrates

Eswatini's Flora - siSwati Names and Uses

Compiled by Chris Long, © December 2005

SiSwati names and uses, arranged by alphabetically by siSwati name:

likholo

   Grewia caffra   (Climbing Raisin)

likhomisi

   Centella asiatica   (Indian Pennywort)

likhomlsi letintfwala

   Senna occidentalis *   (Wild Coffee)

likhovu

   Merwilla plumbea   (Large Blue Scilla)

likhubakhuba

likhwane

   Cyperus dives   (Giant Sedge)

   Cyperus latifolius   (Sedge)

   Cyperus leptocladus   (Sedge)

liklolo

   Celtis africana   (White Stinkwood)

   Choristylis rhamnoides   (False Dogwood)

   Grewia caffra   (Climbing Raisin)

   Grewia flava   (Velvet Brandybush)

   Grewia flavescens   (Rough-leaved raisin)

   Grewia occidentalis   (Cross-berry Raisin)

          var. litoralis

          var. occidentalis

   Grewia olukondae   (Rough-leaved raisin)

liklolo lelikhulu

   Celtis africana   (White Stinkwood)

likotapeni

   Persea americana *   (Avocado)

lilabatseka

   Hypoxis hemerocallidea   (African Potato)

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