wall-en-BERG-ee-uh -- named for Georg Goran Wahlenberg, Swedish professor of botany ...
Dave's Botanary
mar-jen-AY-tuh or
mar-jeh-NAH-tuh -- border, edge; possibly referring to where the plant grows ...
Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: Asiatic bellflower, southern rockbell •
Assamese: খমনা বন khamana ban •
Kurukh: दुद्मा अर्क्सा dudma arxa •
Marathi: केरडी kerdi •
Mundari: tosad kesari •
Nagpuri: दुद्मा साग dudma sag
botanical names:
Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunb.) A.DC. ...
homotypic synonyms:
Campanopsis marginata (Thunb.) Kuntze •
Campanula marginata Thunb. ... and more at
POWO, retrieved 28 January 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
Asiatic bellflower, southern rockbell
~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~
written in: Assamese (অসমীয়া) ... spoken in: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya
খমনা বন khamana ban
- Many thanks to Farmer Tridip Gogoi for help with this name ... facebook ... a generic name given to several species of Wahlenbergia
~~~~~ KURUKH ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari
(कुँड़ुख़), Assamese-Bangla (কুড়ুখ্), Odia (କୁଡ଼ୁଖ୍), Kurukh Banna and
Tolong Siki ... spoken by the Kurukh (Oraon) and Kisan people ...
spoken in: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Tripura ... other names for this language: Kurux, Oraon, Uraon, Uranw
दुद्मा अर्क्सा dudma arxa
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka
केरडी kerdi
~~~~~ MUNDARI ~~~~~
written in: Mundari Bani, Odia, Devanagari, Bengali, Latin ... spoken in: Jharkhand, Odisha
tosad kesari
~~~~~ NAGPURI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (नागपुरी),
Kaithi (historically) ... spoken in: Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha
... spoken by: Nagpuria people, also Nagpuri or Sadan ... other names
for this language: Sadri, Sadani
दुद्मा साग dudma sag
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
almost throughout
State-wise / language-wise, this species is poorly documented ¦ poorly
observed ¦ this species does not seem to have gained ethnobotanical
importance ¦ does not seem to be popular enough for earning worthy
regional names
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Created on: 20:24 28-01-2025 ¦ Last updated: 19:52 29-01-2025
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