Names of Plants in India :: Lepidagathis incurva Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

[Dinesh Valke]

Lepidagathis incurva Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

lep-id-AG-ath-is -- Greek: lepis (scale); agathis (clew = ball of thread, yarn, or twine) ... Catalogue of the Plants
IN-kur-vuh or in-KUR-vuh -- incurved ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: curved lepidagathis • Bengali: কান্দিফুল kandi phool • Dogri: कंडैरा kandairaa, कंडेयारा kandeyaaraa • Garo: byiradimat-mengo-kime • Kannada: ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti • Mizo: vangvattur • Nepali: काँडे kaande, सेतो फुली seto phuli • Tulu: ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti


botanical names: Lepidagathis incurva Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don ... accepted infraspecifics: Lepidagathis incurva var. incurva ... heterotypic synonyms: Lepidagathis hyalina Nees ... and more at POWO, retrieved 01 July 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

curved lepidagathis

• for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved July 01, 2025

~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~

written in: Bengali (বাংলা) ... spoken in: West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

কান্দিফুল kandi phool

• Mehedi Voice - Hasan Mehedi's blog

~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (डोगरी) ... spoken in: Jammu & Kashmir ... spoken by the Dogras

कंडैरा kandairaa, कंडेयारा kandeyaaraa

• Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with these names ... facebook

~~~~~ GARO ~~~~~

written in: Roman, Bengali-Assamese, A-Chik Tok'birim ... spoken in: Meghalaya, Assam

byiradimat-mengo-kime

• Flora of Assam Vol III by U N Kanjilal, P C Kanjilal, A Das, R N De

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka

ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti

• Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and Karnataka - Shodhganga ... ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti = bone binder, indicates its therapeutic efficacy in healing bone fracture

~~~~~ MIZO ~~~~~

written in: Latin, Bengali-Assamese ... spoken in: Mizoram ... other names for this language: Lushai, Duhlian

vangvattur

• Rai, Prabhat & Lalramnghinglova, H. (2010). Lesser known ethnomedicinal plants of Mizoram, North East India: An Indo-Burma hotspot region. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research. 4. 1301-1307.

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (नेपाली) ... spoken in: Nepal, West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim

काँडे kaande, सेतो फुली seto phuli

• Many thanks to Saroj Kumar Kasaju for help with these names ... efloraofindia

~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~

written in: Tigalari (Tulu) was used for writing Vedic texts in Sanskrit, Kannada (ತುಳು), Malayalam (തുളു) ... spoken in: Karnataka, north Kerala

ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti

• Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and Karnataka - Shodhganga ... ಎಲು ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ elu kootti = bone binder, indicates its therapeutic efficacy in healing bone fracture

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

Andaman islands, Assam, *Bihar, *Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, *Kerala, *Maharashtra, *Manipur, *Punjab, *Rajasthan, Sikkim, *Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal

• Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.06; last update June 15th, 2025. Last accessed 01/07/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).
• Jammu & Kashmir :: Janaki Ammal Herbarium - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu

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

~~~~~ Created on: 19:24 01-07-2025 ¦ Last updated: 20:09 02-07-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~

Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/07/lepidagathis-incurva-buch-ham-ex-ddon.html

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Dinesh

[Sam Kuzhalanattu]

Vibrant picture and great work dear Dinesh ji.

Regards, Sam.

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks very much, Sam ji, for the appreciation.
Regards.
Dinesh

[Gurcharan Singh]

Nice comp-ilation Dinesh ji.

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks very much, Gurcharan ji, for the appreciation.
Regards.
Dinesh