Elephantorrhiza elephantina: Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of an Important Medicinal Plant Species in Southern Africa

Table 1

Vernacular names of Elephantorrhiza elephantina.

Vernacular name(s), ethnic group or geographical region in brackets	Country	References
Elephant’s foot (English), chizezana, mosibe, mosidi, mositsane, mositsane tjizezana, motshijane (Setswana)	Botswana	[21–23]
Mositsane (Sotho)	Lesotho	[24]
Xivurayi (Changana), dwarf elephant’s root (English)	Mozambique	[25]
Elandsboontjie (Afrikaans), eland’s bean (English), gerbwürzel (German), an‡gâb (Khoekhoegowab), omundjoze (Otjiherero)	Namibia	[26]
Baswortel, elandsboontjie, leerbossie, looiersboontjie, olifantswortel (Afrikaans), dwarf elephant’s root, eland’s bean, eland’s wattle, elephant’s foot, (English), lešhitšana, mosehlana, mošitšana, motshitshane (Sepedi), gwejobomvu, mositsane (Sotho, Tswana), ntolwane (Swazi), intolwane, xixuvari (Xhosa), intolwane, intolwanu (-enkulu), ugweje, umdabu (Zulu)	South Africa	[4, 8, 11, 17, 20, 27–33]
Intolwane (Swazi)	Swaziland	[34]
Elephant-root (English), intolwane encinyane (Ndebele), chizezepasi, mupangara (Shona)	Zimbabwe	[20, 35]