Names of Plants in India :: Angelica oreada (Diels) M.Hiroe

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Angelica oreada (Diels) M.Hiroe

Angelica oreada (Diels) M.Hiroe

an-JEL-ee-kuh or an-GEL-ee-kuh -- like an angel, angelic ... Dave's Botanary
or-ee-AY-duh or oh-REE-uh-duh -- of the mountains ... compiled from web
commonly known as: mountain angelica • Bhutia: ཁོ་མོག། khomog • Dogri: चोरा chora • Garhwali: चोरू choru • Kashmiri: चोहुर् chohur • Kumaoni: चोरू choru • Ladakhi: ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba, རྩ་རོང tsa ron • Pahari: चोरा chora • Sanskrit: चण्डा chanda • Shina: मौहर छड़ mauhar chhad
botanical names: Angelica oreada (Diels) M.Hiroe ... homotypic synonyms: Archangelica oreadum Diels ... heterotypic synonyms: Angelica archangelica var. himalaica (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar • Angelica archangelica f. himalaica (C.B.Clarke) Weinert • Angelica archangelica subsp. himalaica (C.B.Clarke) G.Singh • Archangelica officinalis var. himalaica C.B.Clarke ... and more at POWO, retrieved 29 May 2026
Bibliography / etymology / notes
Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken sensu amplo.
~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
written and spoken widely, in most parts of India
mountain angelica
~~~~~ BHUTIA ~~~~~
written in: Tibetan (འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་) ... spoken in: Sikkim ... other names for this language: Sikkimese, Drenjongké, Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, Denzongke ... spoken by: Bhutia community of Sikkim
ཁོ་མོག། khomog
  • for Angelica archangelica L. ... Ashok Kumar Panda (2007) Medicinal plants of Sikkim in Ayurvedic practice - Department of Forest, Environment & Wildlife Management, Government of Sikkim ... (accessed: May 30, 2026)
  • A note on the taxonomic sharing of vernacular name: In official state forestry indices, like the Medicinal plants of Sikkim in Ayurvedic practice registry, published by the Government of Sikkim, the name khomog is explicitly mapped to Angelica archangelica (the umbrella synonym under which A. oreada is cataloged in the Eastern Himalayas). ... compiled from web.
~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (डोगरी) ... spoken in: Jammu & Kashmir ... spoken by the Dogras
चोरा chora
~~~~~ GARHWALI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (गढ़वळि) ... spoken in: Uttarakhand
चोरू choru
~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~
written in: Koshur (Perso-Arabic كٲشُر), Devanagari (कश्मीरी), ... spoken in: Kashmir ... other names for this language: Koshur
चोहुर् chohur
~~~~~ KUMAONI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari ... spoken in: Uttarakhand
चोरू choru
~~~~~ LADAKHI ~~~~~
written in: Tibetan (ལ་དྭགས་སྐད་) ... spoken in: Ladakh
ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba
རྩ་རོང tsa ron
  • A note on the taxonomic sharing of vernacular names: In high-altitude trans-Himalayan regions, local names — such as the Ladakhi/Bhoti ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba and རྩ་རོང tsa ron — are frequently documented in ethnobotanical literature under Angelica glauca. However, they are purposefully included in this registry for Angelica oreada due to a well-established phenomenon of folk-taxonomic sharing. Angelica oreada and Angelica glauca are close sibling species belonging to the Apiaceae family. They share an overlapping geographical distribution in alpine meadows, look physically similar, and possess the same intensely pungent, aromatic root profile. Within traditional indigenous healing frameworks like Sowa-Rigpa (Amchi medicine) and local foraging practices, communities categorize wild herbs primarily by their morphological appearance, high-altitude habitat, and therapeutic utility rather than minute macromorphological variations. Furthermore, because Angelica oreada was historically cataloged under synonyms like Angelica archangelica var. himalaica, older regional forestry records and botanical surveys regularly used these vernacular terms interchangeably across both species. Therefore, while modern botanical taxonomy splits them into distinct species, ethnobotanical and cultural taxonomy binds them together as variants of the same foundational Himalayan root asset. ... compiled from web.
~~~~~ PAHARI (or PAHADI) ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (पहाड़ी), Perso-Arabic (پہاڑی) ... variety of languages, dialects and language groups, spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand
चोरा chora
~~~~~ SANSKRIT ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (संस्कृतम्) ... used all over India by priests and scholars
चण्डा chanda
  • K R Keshava Murthy - Floral Gallery of Himalayan Valley of Flowers & Adjacent Areas - First Edition 2011
  • for Angelica archangelica L. ... WISDOM LIBRARY - the greatest source of ancient and modern knowledge ... (accessed: May 30, 2026)
~~~~~ SHINA ~~~~~
oral language, written in: Arabic (Nastaliq) (ݜݨیاٗ) / Urdu / Devanagari / English ... spoken in: Gurez valley of Jammu and Kashmir, Dras valley of Ladakh ... spoken by: Shina community
मौहर छड़ mauhar chhad
  • for Angelica archangelica var. himalaica (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook
~~~~~ KNOWN DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand
~~~~~ Created on: 21:17 29-05-2026 ¦ Last updated: 21:33 30-05-2026 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~






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