Even today, the leaves are an important vegetable during the dry season, mainly for the Konso, Burji and Gidole tribes in the highlands south of Lake Chamo in Ethiopia (G??ttsch et al., 1984), and for the Konso and Burji minorities in the Marsabit District of Kenya (Woche Guyo, Marsabit research assistant of the Kenyan Institute for African Studies, personal communication, 1984).