Names of Plants in India :: Elatostema cuneatum Wight

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Elatostema cuneatum Wight

Elatostema cuneatum Wight

ee-lay-toh-STEM-uh -- Greek: elatos (driving or striking); stema (stamen), referring to the stamens springing up ... Dave's Botanary
kew-nee-AH-tum or kew-nee-AY-tum -- wedge-shaped ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: wedge-shaped soft nettle • Konkani: पाथोर पाल्लो pathor pallo • Marathi: खडक पालक khadak palak • Tawang Monpa tribe: chulukpa


botanical names: Elatostema cuneatum Wight ... synonyms: Elatostema approximatum Wedd. • Elatostema densiflorum Franch. & Sav. • Elatostema nipponicum Makino • Elatostema webbianum Wedd. • Procris approximata Wall. ... POWO
Bibliography / etymology
~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
wedge-shaped soft nettle
  • name given for want of specific common name
    wedge-shaped - derived from the epithet cuneatum, in context of leaf shape -- ... Dave's Botanary
    soft nettle = non-stinging nettle, most of Elatostema spp. are wild edible plants ... Upadhyay, Ashutosh & Gogoi, Rajib & Mitra, Prashanta. (2021). Ethnobotany of Elatostema J.R. Forster & G. Forster (Urticaceae). Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 21. 1-24. 10.32859/era.27.01.1-24.
~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~
पाथोर पाल्लो pathor pallo
  • name given for want of name ... पाथोर pathor = stone; पाल्लो pallo = greens ... for the plant's lithophytic habit and for being edible greens
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
खडक पालक khadak palak
  • name given for want of name ... खडक पालक khadak palak = rock spinach ... for the plant's lithophytic habit and for being consumed by tribal folks, as edible greens
~~~~~ Tawang Monpa tribe ~~~~~
chulukpa
~~~~~ x ~~~~~




Sighted at Yeoor Hills
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