NAME: Dicoma sessiliflora

FAMILY NAME: Compositae

COMMON NAMES: Dicoma

LOCAL NAMES: Doda

MORPHOLOGY: A perennial herb with pithy stems from a few inches to 4 ft. high from a woody stock. Florets yellowish in heads 1-1/2 in. long. The leaves often tinged wine-red. A slender, erect perennial herb, to c. 1 m. tall from a small woody rootstock; roots numerous, thong-like. Stems annual, usually solitary, simple, leafy with the largest leaves somewhat clustered on the lower stem, closely appressed white araneose-lanate to glabrescent.

PART(S): Whole plant

GENERAL USES: Medicinal use

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Zimbabwe, Ghana

WHY IS IT GREEN: Antipyretic, aphrodisiac, cough, stomach ache

FURTHER READING:

WFO (2022): Dicoma sessiliflora Harv. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000083214. Accessed on: 24 Jan 2022