Names of Plants in India :: Rungia repens (L.) Nees

[Dinesh Valke]

Rungia repens (L.) Nees

RUN-jee-uh -- named for Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, a German professor ... Dave's Botanary • Wikipedia
REE-penz -- spreading, creeping ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: creeping rungia • Gujarati: ખડસલીયો khadasaliyo, પીતપાપડો pitpapado • Hindi: खरमोर kharmor • Kannada: ಕೊಡಗಸಾಲೆ kodagasaale • Konkani: घाटी पितपापड ghati pitpapad • Marathi: घाटी पित्तपापडा ghati pittapapada • Rajasthani: खरमार kharmar, घाटी पीतपापड़ा ghati pit-papra • Sanskrit: पर्पट parpata • Tamil: கோடாசரி kotacari, கோடகசாலை kotakacalai • Telugu: పాకల వల్లి pakala velli


botanical names: Rungia repens (L.) Nees ... homotypic synonyms: Diapedium repens (L.) Kuntze • Dicliptera repens (L.) Juss. • Justicia repens L. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 22 August 2025

Bibliography / etymology

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

creeping rungia

• for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved August 22, 2025

~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~

written in: Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: Gujarat, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu

ખડસલીયો khadasaliyo, પીતપાપડો pitpapado

• વનસ્પતીઓ ના ગુજરાતી તથા બોટનીકલ નામ ની યાદી (વૈધ કે.જે.ઝાલા)

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand

खरमोर kharmor

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• The Useful Plants of India, Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka

ಕೊಡಗಸಾಲೆ kodagasaale

• Alar - an authoritative Kannada-English dictionary corpus created by V. Krishna
• ಪದಕಣಜ - ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಜಾಲತಾಣ ... Padakanaja - Official website of Government of Karnataka

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (कोंकणी) / Kannada (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ) / Malayalam (കൊങ്കണി) / Perso-Arabic (کونکنی) / Romi (Konknni) ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat

घाटी पितपापड ghati pitpapad

• name borrowed from Marathi, for want of name

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka

घाटी पित्तपापडा ghati pittapapada

• The Gazetteer Department - Maharashtra State ... महाराष्ट्रातील वनस्पतीशास्त्र आणि वनसंपदा [accessed on: 28 Apr 2014]
• The Useful Plants of India, Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (राजस्थानी) ... spoken in: Rajasthan

खरमार kharmar

• Banswara - Forest Department - Rajasthan Government
• Mahendra CP, Kotia A. Ethnomedicinal study of some plants of family Acanthaceae of Rajasthan. Int J Appl Res 2018;4(3):536-539.

घाटी पीतपापड़ा ghati pit-papra

• Manju Chaudhary and S.K. Shringi - Floristic Composition of Beer Jhunjhunu Conservation Reserve of Rajasthan, India - The Biobrio 4(1 & 2), 2017

~~~~~ SANSKRIT ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (संस्कृतम्) ... used all over India by priests and scholars

पर्पट parpata

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

written in: Tamil (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

கோடாசரி kotacari, கோடகசாலை kotakacalai

• Tamil lexicon [Madras], University of Madras

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~

written in: Telugu ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry

పాకల వల్లి pakala velli

• Flora Andhrika - Plant Wealth of Andhra Pradesh, India
• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~

throughout mainland, including Andaman & Nicobar islands

• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.08; last update August 18th, 2025. Last accessed 28/07/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).

~~~~~ Created on: 16:38 22-08-2025 ¦ Last updated: 11:05 31-08-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~

Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/08/rungia-repens-l-nees.html

Regards.
Dinesh

[Sam Kuzhalanattu]

Nice picture and good work dear Dinesh ji,

regards, Sam.

On Sun, 31 Aug, 2025, 6:33 pm Sam Kuzhalanattu, <samkuzh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice picture and good work dear Dinesh ji,

regards, Sam.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Very useful compilation Dinesh ji.

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks very much, Sam ji, for the appreciation.

Please help with Malayalam name, if any, for this plant.

Regards.
Dinesh

[Sam Kuzhalanattu]

Only AI search results dear Dinesh ji.

Regards, Sam.

[Dinesh Valke]

Okay Sam ji.

Regards.

Dinesh