Afrosciadium eylesii is a member of the carrot family, Apiaceae.

It is a perennial tuberous herb native to southeastern Africa, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

[1] Afrosciadium eylesii is found between roughly 1,750 to 2,100 meters above sea level, in damp tropical grasslands in southeastern Africa.

It grows to between 1 and 2 meters tall, with a purple-tinged woody stem.

It boasts flowers with small, elliptical petals, roughly 1 millimeter long, of a yellow or yellow-green color.