The related species G. dalenii is use in traditional medicine. Gladiolus dalenii is one of the plants used by local communities in the Kenyan Lake Victoria Basin to treat various infections such as meningitis, malaria, diarrhoea, ulcers and HIV related fungal infections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005389/#:~:text=Gladiolus%20dalenii%20is%20one%20of,and%20HIV%20related%20fungal%20infections.

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