13,446 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

Artemisia afra

Taxonomy

Artemisia afra Jacq. ex Willd is a species of the Asteraceae family. It has many common names, including “African wormwood”, “wild wormwood” in English and “armoise africaine” in French.

Among these many local names are:

Wilde als, als, alsem (Afrikaans) ; Fivi (Kisambaa), Lunyaga (Kisafwa), umhlonyane (Swati, Xhosa, Zulu), um hlonyane (Xhosa), umhlorryane (Xhosa), msuzwane (Xhosa), mhlonyane (Zulu), iliongana (Tsawana), lengana (Pedi, Tswana, Sotho, Setswana), lusanje (Kinyakyusa), zengana (Southern Sotho) ; nthilili (Nyaneka), eliminiomba in Angola, aguppiyaa/agufa (Konta), yesiet kest (Amharic), ttcikkugne, ariti (Amaringa), chukun, jukun (Galinya-harar), kodo (Galinya), kapani (Galinya-bale), chugughee (Gedeoffa), godoguracha (Oromic) in Ethiopia ; olchanipus, sisimwet (Sabaot) in Kenya ; enjani pus, fivi/fifi (Swahili, Sambaa), injanev yoso, inyaga, linyaga, olunjanyioiboru, sumangara, fifi (Shambaa), ushemeli (Sukuma) in Tanzania. [1-5]