Thank you very much Lalithamba ji for the name and etymology. Great help. Regards. Dinesh
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Names of Plants in India :: Telugu name of Justicia betonica To: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> 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 Regards A.Lalithamba On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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". > > Regards. > Dinesh > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear friends, please help in providing the Telugu name *tellarantu* (or >> *thellarantu*) for *Justicia betonica*, in native script. >> Reference : ENVIS - FRLHT >> <http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1256> >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

