Gujarati name of Tacca leontopetaloides

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends, and Viplav ji,

Please help me with the name kanchinda no velo in native script. Tacca leontopetaloides yields starch, thus part of first word of the name would be કાંજી kanji (and I do not think it would be કાંચી going by the first transcribed word kanchi***). The last words: નો વેલો meaning creeping  / climbing plant of.

The first word kanchinda is either a typo OR a compounded word ****** + કંદ, which I am not able to make out.

Please help me with the first word of the name:  કાંજી**** નો વેલો

References:

1. Floristic diversity and ethnobotany of Chhota Udepur forest division by Bimal S Desai
2. Medicinal Plant Diversity and Ethnomedicobotany of Kaprada range of Dharampur Forests in South Gujarat by Patel Hirenkumar Shankarbhai

Regards.

Dinesh

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dinesh ji. 

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[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Naren ji.

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From: Naren Patel <taxonom...@gmail.com>
Date: 28 December 2017 at 19:36
Subject: Re: Fwd: [efloraofindia:284155] Gujarati name of Tacca leontopetaloides
To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

Jogi badshah 

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Bhaskar ji.

On 28 December 2017 at 20:35, Bhasker Punjani <blpunj...@gmail.com> wrote:

કાચિંડાનો વેલો 

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[Naren Patel]

You are welcome. 

[Dinesh Valke]

Many many thanks Garg ji for resurfacing / following up this query.

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Thanks very much Naren ji for the name jogi badshah જોગી બાદશાહ ... must be a local name, not much popular - I could not find any instance on internet of this name jogi badshah OR જોગી બાદશાહ relating to Tacca. Though in some parts of Maharashtra, this plant is known in a similar fashion - जटाशंकर jatashankar ... the long thread-like bracteoles, inflorescence, leaves, all together giving an allusion of Lord Shiva's head with matted hair ... Lord Shiva is indeed King of Yogis ... thus the name is fitting.

In the north, Saussurea simpsoniana is known by this name, jogi badshah.

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Thanks very very much Bhasker ji for the name કાચિંડાનો વેલો kachindano velo... literal meaning - chameleon's creeper / climber. The Konkanis and Malwanis too relate this plant to chameleon; they call the plant as  सरडेचो माड sardecho mad ... literal meaning - chameleon's palm (tree).

Regards.

Dinesh

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dinesh ji,  for further insights. 

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Goutam ji.

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From: Goutam Bhattacharya <gbhattac...@gmail.com>
Date: 29 December 2017 at 23:57
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:284155] Gujarati name of Tacca leontopetaloides
To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

Sir

  It is called Polynesian arrowroot, or Fiji arrowroot,

and the words કાંજી**** નો વેલો

here કાંજી means starch and વેલો stands for a plant it is not necessary creeper always

With regards

Dr G Bhattacharyya

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks very very much Dr Bhattacharyya ji.

Regards.

Dinesh