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Useful Tropical Plants

Dicoma tomentosa

Cass.

Asteraceae

+ Synonyms

Acilepis lanata Spreng. ex DC.

Dicoma gnaphaloides Mattei

Dicoma lanuginosa DC.

Common Name:

Dicoma tomentosa
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General Information

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/
].

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

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.

Range

Africa - most tropical and subtropical areas away from areas of higher rainfall; E. Asia - Indian subcontinent.

Habitat

Low 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.
].

Properties

Medicinal Rating *  *
HabitAnnual
Height0.50 m
Cultivation StatusWild

Cultivation Details

A plant of lowland areas in the drier regions of the tropics and subtropics, where it is found at elevations below 800 metres.

Edible Uses

None known

Medicinal

The whole plant is strongly bitter and is used as a febrifuge, particularly for children and for women after childbirth[
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/
].
The plant is applied as a dressing to septic wounds, and is used in a fumigation to relieve skin-itch[
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/
].

A roll of bruised leaves are inserted into the nostrils and left there for about an hour as a treatment for colds in the head[
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/
].

The leaves and fruit are burnt in a hole over which the patient squats when treating pain in the testicles[
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/
].

Other Uses

None known

Propagation

Seed -
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