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to efloraofindia, Lalithamba Avadhanam
From the dictionary, I could find తెల్ల = white / pale ... a prefix quite often used to describe a white / pale form of some aspect of the plant.
But I am not confident with the latter part of the name "rantu".
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Dinesh
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Thank you very much Lalithamba ji for the name and etymology. Great help.
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Dinesh
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lalithamba Avadhanam<alali...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Names of Plants in India :: Telugu name of Justicia betonica To: Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>
It is written as తెల్ల రంతు Rantu means way/road in telugu because of white veins seen as roads on the bract it may be called TELLA RANTU