Names of Plants in India :: Torenia indica

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Dinesh Valke

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Aug 18, 2011, 11:49:08 AM8/18/11
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Torenia indica Saldanha

Torenia indica Sald. 

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tor-EN-ee-uh -- named for Rev. Olof Toren, 18th century Swedish chaplain
IN-dih-kuh or in-DEE-kuh -- of or from India 


commonly known as: Indian wishbone flower • Marathi: तोरणी torani • Telugu: చిన్న ¿ మొగకూర ? chinna mogakur 


botanical names: Torenia indica Sald. ... synonyms: no synonyms 


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Plant in photo: at Naneghat, 1330 ft asl, 15 AUG 11


Dear Telugu-knowing friends, please validate the name put in native script for chinna mogakur -- చిన్న మొగకూర

Another query -- is this plant endemic to southern peninsula of India -- restricted distribution in Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa AND Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh ?



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Dinesh

Smilax004

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Aug 18, 2011, 12:23:16 PM8/18/11
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Nice pictures! Now this genus is in Linderniaceae family.


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Giby

On Aug 18, 8:49 pm, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> *tor-EN-ee-uh* -- named for Rev. Olof Toren, 18th century Swedish chaplain
> *IN-dih-kuh* or *in-DEE-kuh* -- of or from India
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> *commonly known as*: Indian wishbone
> flower<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/i...>
>  • *Marathi*: तोरणी
> torani<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/t...>
>  • *Telugu*: చిన్న<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/ci...>
>  ¿ మొగకూర<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/ci...>
>  ? chinna mogakur<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/ci...>
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> *botanical names*: *Torenia indica* Sald. ... *synonyms*: no synonyms


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> Dear Telugu-knowing friends, please validate the name put in native script

> for *chinna mogakur* -- చిన్న మొగకూర

Dinesh Valke

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Aug 18, 2011, 12:31:17 PM8/18/11
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Many thanks for the updating me of the family, Giby ji ... will make change in my notes shortly.
Regards.
Dinesh.

J.M. Garg

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Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.

“Dear Telugu-knowing friends, please validate the name put in native script for chinna mogakur -- చిన్న మొగకూర

Another query -- is this plant endemic to southern peninsula of India -- restricted distribution in Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa AND Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh ? ”

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Satish Phadke

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Nov 14, 2011, 9:08:25 AM11/14/11
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Nice close up. The flowers are so tiny Always difficult to shoot correctly...
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Dinesh Valke

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Nov 13, 2024, 7:59:52 AM11/13/24
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Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2024/11/torenia-indica-cjsaldanha.html

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Dinesh

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Nov 13, 2024, 8:03:16 AM11/13/24
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Torenia indica C.J.Saldanha

Torenia indica C.J.Saldanha

tor-EN-ee-uh -- named for Rev. Olof Toren, Swedish chaplain ... Dave's Botanary
IN-dih-kuh or in-DEE-kuh -- of or from India ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: Indian wishbone flower • Gujarati: નાની તોરણીયા nani toraniya • Kannada: ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಾಗೆ ಹೂ sanna kaage hoo • Konkani: लहान कावळ्याचो दोळो lahan kavalyacho dolo • Marathi: तोरणी torani • Telugu: చిన్న మొగకూర chinna mogakura • Tulu: ಎಲ್ಯ ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಪೂ elya kakke poo


botanical names: Torenia indica C.J.Saldanha ... synonyms: no known synonyms ... POWO, retrieved 12 November 2024
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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
written and spoken widely, in most parts of India
Indian wishbone flower
~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~
written in: Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: Gujarat, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu
નાની તોરણીયા nani toraniya
  • name coined, for want of name; નાની nani = small, smaller; તોરણીયા toraniya = a name coined for Torenia asiatica L. ... named so, as T. indica is morphologically similar and smaller compared to T. asiatica
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka
ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಾಗೆ ಹೂ sanna kaage hoo
  • name coined, for want of name; ಸಣ್ಣ sanna = small, smaller; ಕಾಗೆ ಹೂ kaage hoo = a name given to Torenia bicolor Dalzell ... name given to the flower ... the flower of T. indica is morphologically similar and smaller compared to that of T. bicolor
~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (कोंकणी), Kannada (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ), Malayalam (കൊങ്കണി), Perso-Arabic (کونکنی), Romi (Konknni) ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat
लहान कावळ्याचो दोळो lahan kavalyacho dolo
  • name coined, for want of name; लहान lahan = small, smaller; कावळ्याचो दोळो kavalyacho dolo = crow's eye (literal meaning), otherwise a name given to few plants, one of them being Torenia asiatica L. ... name given to the flower ... the flower of T. indica is morphologically similar and smaller compared to that of T. asiatica
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka
तोरणी torani
  • name coined, for want of name, by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author of Further Flowers of Sahyadri, the second among the three field guides to identify plants of northern Western Ghats of India, based on flowers
  • Many thanks to Swagat Thorat for help with this name ... efloraofindia
~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
written in: Telugu ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry
చిన్న మొగకూర chinna mogakura
~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~
written in: Tigalari (Tulu) was used for writing Vedic texts in Sanskrit, Kannada (ತುಳು), Malayalam (തുളു) ... spoken in: Karnataka, north Kerala
ಎಲ್ಯ ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಪೂ elya kakke poo
  • name coined, for want of name; ಎಲ್ಯ elya = small, smaller; ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಪೂ kakke poo = a name given to Torenia bicolor Dalzell ... name given to the flower ... the flower of T. indica is morphologically similar and smaller compared to that of T. bicolor
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Andhra Pradesh, !*Assam, !*Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, !*Himachal Pradesh, *Jharkhand, Karnataka, !*Kerala, *Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, !*Manipur, *Odisha, !*Punjab, !*Sikkim, !*Tamil Nadu, *Uttar Pradesh, *West Bengal
* no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state
! distribution doubtful
~~~~~ Created on: 11:16 12-11-2024 ¦ Last updated: 18:20 13-11-2024 ~~~~~
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Gurcharan Singh

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Nov 21, 2024, 5:09:14 AM11/21/24
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Another very good contribution Dinesh ji.

Dinesh Valke

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Thanks very much, Gurcharan ji, for the appreciation.
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