Dicoma tomentosa
Asteraceae FAMILY

Dicoma tomentosa

Dicoma tomentosa

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Dicoma tomentosa is an erect, annual plant, sometimes living for more tha one year. It can grow up to 1 metre tall[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. An annual herb to about 60 cm high, of dry fields and sandy arid places in Senegal to N Nigeria, and extending to NE Africa and into Asia, and to Angola and Mozambique[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeAfrica - most tropical and subtropical areas away from areas of higher rainfall; E. Asia - Indian subcontinent.
HabitatLow rainfall areas, on sandy or dry rocky river banks, rocky slopes, grassy floodplains, sand veld or Colophospermum mopane-grassland, at elevations below 800 metres. Also as a weed of old cultivation and disturbed areas[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].