Acalypha ciliata is a species in the botanical family Euphorbiaceae. It occurs widely in Africa where it is eaten as a vegetable,P. M. Goode, FAO Food and nutrition paper 42(1) (1989), Edible plants of Uganda: the value of wild and cultivated plants as food. or fed to animals. In West Africa and East Africa it is used as a medicinal plant.Schmelzer, G.H. & Gurib-Fakim, A. (Editors), 2008. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 11(1). Medicinal plants 1. PROTA Foundation, Wageningen, Netherlands / Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands / CTA, Wageningen, Netherlands. 791 pp.
Geographic distribution Acalypha ciliata occurs throughout tropical Africa, except central Africa. It also occurs in tropical Arabia, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.African Plant Database
References
External links PROTA4U on Acalypha ciliata