Names of Plants in India :: Telugu name of Justicia betonica

Dinesh Valke

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Sep 21, 2016, 11:12:34 AM9/21/16

to efloraofindia, Lalithamba Avadhanam

Dear friends, please help in providing the Telugu name tellarantu (or thellarantu) for Justicia betonica, in native script.

Reference : ENVIS - FRLHT

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Dinesh

Dinesh Valke

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Sep 21, 2016, 11:38:36 AM9/21/16

to efloraofindia, Lalithamba Avadhanam

From the dictionary, I could find తెల్ల = white / pale ... a prefix quite often used to describe a white / pale form of some aspect of the plant.

But I am not confident with the latter part of the name "rantu".

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Dinesh

Dinesh Valke

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Sep 21, 2016, 11:09:06 PM9/21/16

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Thank you very much Lalithamba ji for the name and etymology. Great help.

Regards.

Dinesh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alali...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Names of Plants in India :: Telugu name of Justicia betonica
To: Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>

It is written as తెల్ల రంతు Rantu means way/road in telugu because of white veins seen as roads on the bract it may be called TELLA RANTU