Names of Plants in India :: Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce

[Dinesh Valke]

Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce

¿ bon-NEY-ah ? -- named for Charles François, Marquis de Bonnay (1750-1825), French military officer, politician and diplomat, student of botany ... Plant genera named after people (1753-1853) by José A. Mari Mut
an-te-PO-da or an-TIP-uh-da -- from the Greek, anti (opposite) and pous (foot), referring to people or places diametrically opposite on the globe ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: fart weed, sparrow false pimpernel • Assamese: বগা কাঁচিডৰিয়া baga kachidoria • Bengali: সাদা পানি ঘাস sada pani ghas, জাই ঘাস zai ghas • Khamti: yakio • Konkani: शेवाळ sheval • Marathi: शेवाळ sheval • Tamil: தண்ணிப் பூண்டு thanni poondu • Telugu: నీళ్ల పుండు neella pundu


botanical names: Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce ... homotypic synonyms: Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston • Ruellia antipoda L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Bonnaya bracteata Griff. • Bonnaya verbenifolia (Colsm.) Spreng. • Lindernia verbenifolia (Colsm.) Pennell ... and many more at POWO

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.

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

fart weed

• G. Gaddeyya and P. K. Ratna Kumar - Studies on weed infestation of some agricultural fields at Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh - Journal of Crop and Weed, 10(2):419-429(2014)

sparrow false pimpernel

• Digital Flora of Karnataka by Herbarium JCB
• or sparrow lindernia ... Flowers of India

~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~

বগা কাঁচিডৰিয়া baga kachidoria

• Many thanks to Ashim Gogoi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~

সাদা পানি ঘাস sada pani ghas, জাই ঘাস zai ghas

• Many thanks to Subham Sahu for help with these names for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... facebook

~~~~~ KHAMTI ~~~~~

yakio

• Das & Tag - Ethnomedicinal studies of the Khamti tribe of Arunachal Pradesh - Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 5(3), July 2006, pp. 317-322
• this language has its own native script

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

शेवाळ sheval

• name borrowed from Marathi, for want of name

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

शेवाळ sheval

• Many thanks to Swagat Thorat for help with this name for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... efloraofindia
• this name is quite generic, and normally applied to mosses and other tiny aquatic plants which spread over wet walls and ground

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

தண்ணிப் பூண்டு thanni poondu

• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Tamil names of Botanical names by Yercaud Ilango

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~

నీళ్ల పుండు neella pundu

• Many thanks to A. Lalithamba for help with this name ... efloraofindia
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... EPTRI-ENVIS Centre (SoE &RI-AP) - Medicinal Herbs - Amazing Healing Properties - Article 08/2015/ENVIS-SoEAP

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

Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, *Bihar, *Jharkhand, Goa, *Gujarat, *Karnataka, *Kerala, *Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, *Meghalaya, *Odisha, Tamil Nadu, *Tripura, *Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal

• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... S Rajendra Kumar, S Kalavathy (2010) Floristic status and its conservation in the forests of the north Gujarat region (NGR) Gujarat, India - Shodhganga
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Qureshimatva UM, Maurya RR, Gamit SB, Solanki HA (2016) - Check List of Flowering Plants in Panchmahal District, Gujarat, India. - Forest Res 5: 176. doi:10.4172/2168-9776.1000176
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... The Gazetteer Department ... महाराष्ट्रातील वनस्पतीशास्त्र आणि वनसंपदा
• Hassler, Michael (2004 - 2023): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 16.3; last update Aug. 16th, 2023. Last accessed 19/08/2023.

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

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Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/08/bonnaya-antipoda-l-druce.html

Regards.
Dinesh

[Sam Kuzhalanattu]

Nice pic and excellent work dear Dinesh ji,

With regards, Sam.

[M Swamy]

Dear Dinesh ji,

As of now  there is no name in Kannada for this plant .  As such I have coined a new word based on  South Indian languages namely  Tamil and Teleugu..

I think the word  "ನೀರು ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ" (Neeru Bellulli)  mIeaning water garlic  is more suitable.  The name derived using the Tamil name   Thanni Poondu and  Telugu   name  Neella Pundu .  Both the names mean water garlic.  Therefore, I have derived the equivalent name in Kannada.  If you feel  it is O.K.you may incorporate.

Thanks & Regards,

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks very much, dear Mahadeswara ji, for coining this name.

I had discussed with Vijayasankar ji for coining a Tamil name for Bonnaya gracilis based on the name "thanni poondu" given to Bonnaya antipoda. I too was under the impression that "poondu" means garlic. However, he pointed out that the word "poondo" in this context means "herb", thus "thanni poondu" would mean "aquatic herb".

Therefore, I request you to think in terms of the generic "aquatic herb" ... perhaps, ನೀರು ಸೊಪ್ಪು neeru soppu. I leave it to your discretion.

Regards.

Dinesh

[Dinesh Valke]

Removed the Marathi (शेवाळ sheval) and Konkani (शेवाळ sheval) names of this plant.

One of my facebook friend pointed out that शेवाळ sheval has been misapplied to this plant; it is just a generic name for moss and other aquatic non-flowering plants.

Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce

¿ bon-NEY-ah ? -- named for Charles François, Marquis de Bonnay (1750-1825), French military officer, politician and diplomat, student of botany ... Plant genera named after people (1753-1853) by José A. Mari Mut
an-te-PO-da or an-TIP-uh-da -- from the Greek, anti (opposite) and pous (foot), referring to people or places diametrically opposite on the globe ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: fart weed, sparrow false pimpernel • Assamese: বগা কাঁচিডৰিয়া baga kachidoria • Bengali: সাদা পানি ঘাস sada pani ghas, জাই ঘাস zai ghas • Khamti: yakio • Tamil: தண்ணிப் பூண்டு thanni poondu • Telugu: నీళ్ల పుండు neella pundu

botanical names: Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce ... homotypic synonyms: Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston • Ruellia antipoda L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Bonnaya bracteata Griff. • Bonnaya verbenifolia (Colsm.) Spreng. • Lindernia verbenifolia (Colsm.) Pennell ... and many more at POWO

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.

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

fart weed

• G. Gaddeyya and P. K. Ratna Kumar - Studies on weed infestation of some agricultural fields at Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh - Journal of Crop and Weed, 10(2):419-429(2014)

sparrow false pimpernel

• Digital Flora of Karnataka by Herbarium JCB
• or sparrow lindernia ... Flowers of India

~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~

বগা কাঁচিডৰিয়া baga kachidoria

• Many thanks to Ashim Gogoi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~

সাদা পানি ঘাস sada pani ghas, জাই ঘাস zai ghas

• Many thanks to Subham Sahu for help with these names for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... facebook

~~~~~ KHAMTI ~~~~~

yakio

• Das & Tag - Ethnomedicinal studies of the Khamti tribe of Arunachal Pradesh - Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 5(3), July 2006, pp. 317-322
• this language has its own native script

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

தண்ணிப் பூண்டு thanni poondu

• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Tamil names of Botanical names by Yercaud Ilango

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~

నీళ్ల పుండు neella pundu

• Many thanks to A. Lalithamba for help with this name ... efloraofindia
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB
• for Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston ... EPTRI-ENVIS Centre (SoE &RI-AP) - Medicinal Herbs - Amazing Healing Properties - Article 08/2015/ENVIS-SoEAP

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

Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, *Bihar, *Jharkhand, *Goa, *Gujarat, *Karnataka, *Kerala, *Madhya Pradesh, *Maharashtra, *Meghalaya, *Odisha, Tamil Nadu, *Tripura, *Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal

[Gurcharan Singh]

Another great contribution Dinesh ji.