Swaziland's Flora Database

Species Information

Merwilla plumbea (Lindl.) Speta (name current July 2011) ndvwendiwenduwe Ndvwendvwendvwe (Scilla plumbea) (Scilla natalensis) HYACINTHACEAE Schedule C Medicinal Other uses Red Data Book Information: Status: LR nt Threats: Collection Distribution: Malolotja, Usuthu, Mbabane Widespread. Suggested to be classified as Vulnerable. Widely used and still abundant. In remote places it is frequent. Collected for medicinal purposes. Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*): Scilla natalensis - Bulb up to 10 cm diam, without bristles. Leaves 6—8, hairy or hairless, up to 50 cm long; flowers numerous in dense raceme up to 30 cm long; perianth segments bright blue, c 1 cm long-, stamens shorter than perianth; ovary shortly stalked, ovules c 10 in each chamber. * Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Herbarium Specimens