Malayalam name of Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq.

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Dinesh Valke

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Oct 17, 2025, 4:32:32 AM (3 days ago) Oct 17
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Dear Sam ji,
Please help validate whether the Malayalam name culi tamara of Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq. listed in FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants is written as ചുഴി താമര chuli taamara.

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Dinesh

Dinesh Valke

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Oct 17, 2025, 5:40:15 AM (3 days ago) Oct 17
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Dear Sam ji, also please check / validate this name found in A Malayalam and English dictionary by Hermann Gundert
കുഴിത്താ താമര kuzhithaa thaamara

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Dinesh

Sam Kuzhalanattu

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Oct 17, 2025, 1:15:08 PM (2 days ago) Oct 17
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Dear Dinesh ji,
In Malayalam, chuli ചുളി or chulivu means wrinkles, but I doesn't observe any kind of wrinkled charector related to the plant, and the plant is growing in fresh water or swampy habitat, simply neglected area filled with water.
As growing in this habitat, it is named in Malayalam as chelithamara ചെളിതാമര, cheli means mud with or without water, താമര thamara means lotus (truly it is not a lotus, but having lotus type charectors) and wrongly named as 'chuli'.  If anywhere described that the plant has wrinkles, we can accept the name chulithamara ചുളിതാമര.  And the name 'ചുഴി chuzhi' means whirl.

Another name kuzhithamara കുഴിതാമര (കുഴി means pit) is correct.
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Dinesh Valke

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Oct 18, 2025, 1:28:46 AM (yesterday) Oct 18
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Dear Sam ji, 
Many many thanks for this elaborate clarification.
To avoid any ambiguity, we will avoid the name ചുളിതാമര chulithamara, unless someone validates it to be appropriate.

For now, let us use the following names:
ചെളിതാമര chelithamara 
കുഴിതാമര kuzhithamara

Many many thanks.

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Dinesh

girish kumar ellezhuthil

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3:30 AM (15 hours ago) 3:30 AM
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The malayalam word  ചുളിതാമര can also be used as the fruit of the same has some wrinkles or reticulations and the petioles are slightly ridged add twisted in nature 

Dinesh Valke

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3:55 AM (15 hours ago) 3:55 AM
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Many many thanks Girish Kumar ji for clarification and validation of this name ചുളിതാമര chulithamara.
Will update my notes shortly.
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Dinesh


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Dr. Girish Kumar

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5:36 AM (13 hours ago) 5:36 AM
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Thank you Dineshji

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