Fwd: Names of Plants in India :: Justicia neesii Ramamoorthy

[Dinesh Valke]

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From: Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Names of Plants in India :: Justicia neesii Ramamoorthy
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Justicia neesii Ramamoorthy

jus-TEE-see-ah -- named for James Justice, Scottish botanist and horticulturist ... Dave's Botanary
¿ nee-SEE-eye ? -- named for German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher - Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ... Wikipedia

commonly known as: small-flowered justicia


botanical names: Justicia neesii Ramamoorthy ... synonyms: Ecbolium crinitum (Nees) Kuntze • Justicia micrantha Wall. ex C.B.Clarke • Rostellaria crinita Nees • Rostellularia crinita (Nees) Nees • Rostellularia neesii A.K.Mukh. ... Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.06; last update June 15th, 2025. Last accessed 24/06/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).

NOTE: The scientific names of this species are all mixed-up
READ: Soumya, Puliyakode & PURAYIDATHKANDY, SUNOJKUMAR. (2020). A note on the nomenclature of Justicia micrantha Wall. ex C.B. Clarke (Acanthaceae) and its lectotypification. Phytotaxa. 453. 151-153. 10.11646/phytotaxa.453.2.7.

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

small-flowered justicia

• for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved June 24, 2025

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

*Andhra Pradesh, *Karnataka, *Madhya Pradesh, *Maharashtra, *Tamil Nadu; not endemic to India; known to be distributed globally in peninsular Malaysia

• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.06; last update June 15th, 2025. Last accessed 24/06/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).
• Maharashtra :: The Gazetteer Department - Maharashtra State ... महाराष्ट्रातील वनस्पतीशास्त्र आणि वनसंपदा [accessed on: 28 Apr 2014]

* no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state

~~~~~ Created on: 17:49 24-06-2025 ¦ Last updated: 10:26 26-06-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~

Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/06/justicia-neesii-ramamoorthy.html

Regards.
Dinesh