Nice pic and excellent work dear Dinesh ji, both Malayalam and English
names are correct.
Regards, Sam.

On Sun, 12 Jan, 2025, 1:22 pm Dinesh Valke, <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Vanda testacea* (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
> [image: Vanda testacea (Lindl.) Rchb.f.]
> <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78558717>
>
> *VAN-duh* -- derived from the Sanskrit word वन्दा (*vanda*) = any
> parasitical or epiphytic plant ... Dave's Botanary
> <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=Vanda> •
> विकिशब्दकोशः
> <https://sa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE>
> *test-uh-SEE-uh* -- Latin: *testaceus* (covered with a shell) - referring
> to the fruit covering ... Wiktionary
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/testacea>
>
> *commonly known as*: small-flowered vanda • *Gujarati*: નાનું રાસના nanu
> rasna • *Hindi*: अमड़ी amdi • *Kannada*: ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸನಾ kiri raasana •
> *Konkani*: लहान रास्ना lahan rasna • *Kurukh*: मदगी बांदा madgi banda •
> *Malayalam*: മരവാഴ maravaazha • *Manipuri*: ꯀ꯭ꯋꯥꯀꯤꯕꯤ ꯍꯉꯥꯝꯄꯥꯜ kwakibi
> hangampal • *Marathi*: हाडाचा लसूण hadacha lasun, पिवळी वंदा pivali vanda
> • *Mizo*: nau-bân • *Mundari*: मदुकम madukam • *Nepali*: हरजोर harajor •
> *Odia*: ମଲାଙ୍ଗ malanga, ରାସ୍ନା rasna • *Tamil*: சிறுமலர் வாண்டா cirumalar
> vanda • *Telugu*: బదనిక badanika, మర్దారు mardaru, మొల్లందానా mollandana,
> వజనికా vajnika
>
>
> *botanical names*: *Vanda testacea* (Lindl.) Rchb.f. ... *synonyms*: *Aerides
> testacea* Lindl. • *Aerides wightiana* Lindl. • *Vanda parviflora* Lindl.
> • *Vanda vitellina* Kraenzl. ... and more in GBIF Secretariat: GBIF
> Backbone Taxonomy. https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei. Accessed via
> https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517 on [11 January 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 <https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/12/languages-of-india.html>
> 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 vanda*
>
>    - Orchids Wiki <https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Vanda_testacea> - a
>    community that focuses on providing the best information on orchids and
>    orchid culture
>
> ~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~
> written in: *Gujarati* (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: *Gujarat*, *Dadra & Nagar
> Haveli*, *Daman & Diu*
> *નાનું રાસના nanu rasana*
>
>    - name coined, for want of name; નાનું nanu = small, smaller; રાસના
>    rasana = name given to *Vanda roxburghii* / *Vanda tessellata*
>    - રાસના rasana also written as રાસ્ના rasna = a medicinal plant ... 
> Gujarati
>    Lexicon
>    
> <https://www.gujaratilexicon.com/dictionary/gujarati-to-gujarati-translation/%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A8%E0%AA%BE*/>
>    - the most comprehensive Gujarati language resource
>
> ~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~
> written in: *Devanagari* (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: *Delhi*, *Uttar Pradesh*,
> *Bihar*, *Chhattisgarh*, *Haryana*, *Jharkhand*, *Madhya Pradesh*,
> Rajasthan, *Uttarakhand*
> *अमड़ी amdi*
>
>    - Mujaffar, Shaikh & Mishra, Shakun & Deoda, V & Moinuddin, S &
>    Mustakim, Shahriar. (2013). ORCHID SPECIES DIVERSITY OF EAST NIMAR,
>    MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA.
>    <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279014320>
>
> ~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
> written in: *Kannada* (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: *Karnataka*
> *ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸನಾ kiri raasana*
>
>    - FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
>    
> <https://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/62134a1657c9e3e289cb4820bdcd9a8e/b456af3c184637adfc84b51d1f69cbe3>
>    - Katrahalli, Kotresha & Kambhar, Sidanand & Harihar, N. (2011). FLORISTIC
>    COMPOSITION OF WOODY SPECIES IN KARNATAK COLLEGE, DHARWAD (KCD), KARNATAKA,
>    INDIA.
>    
> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289675322_FLORISTIC_COMPOSITION_OF_WOODY_SPECIES_IN_KARNATAK_COLLEGE_DHARWAD_KCD_KARNATAKA_INDIA>
>    Life sciences Leaflets. 18. 656 –669.
>    - Parimala, R & Hegde, G R (2011) - Flora of Dharwad district - Part 2
>    
> <https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/95562/2/02_chapter%201.pdf>
>    - Shodhganga
>    - ಕಿರಿ kiri = small, smaller; ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸನಾ kiri raasana = name given to 
> *Vanda
>    roxburghii* / *Vanda tessellata*
>
> ~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~
> written in: *Devanagari* (कोंकणी) / *Kannada* (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ) / Malayalam
> (കൊങ്കണി) / Perso-Arabic (کونکنی) / Romi
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_in_the_Roman_script> (*Konknni*)
> ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat
> *लहान रास्ना lahan rasna*
>
>    - name coined, for want of name; लहान lahan = small, smaller; रास्ना
>    rasna = name given to *Vanda roxburghii* / *Vanda tessellata*
>
> ~~~~~ KURUKH ~~~~~
> written in: *Devanagari* (कुँड़ुख़), Assamese-Bangla (কুড়ুখ্), Odia
> (କୁଡ଼ୁଖ୍), Kurukh Banna and Tolong Siki ... spoken by the Kurukh (Oraon)
> and Kisan people ... spoken in: *Chhattisgarh*, *Jharkhand*, *Odisha*,
> West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Tripura ... other names for this language:
> Kurux, Oraon, Uraon, Uranw
> *मदगी बांदा madgi banda*
>
>    - for *Vanda parviflora* Lindl. ... The Useful Plants of India
>    
> <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n679/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Vanda>,
>    Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR
>
> ~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~
> written in: *Malayalam* (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: *Kerala*, Lakshadweep
> *മരവാഴ maravaazha*
>
>    - Many thanks to Dr Giby Kuriakose for help with this name ...
>    efloraofindia
>    <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/IQEHiS6pmck/m/sV1psEgLL-UJ>
>    ... a generic name for several species of *Acampe*, *Aerides* and
>    *Vanda*
>
> ~~~~~ MANIPURI ~~~~~
> written in: *Meiteilon* (ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ), Bengali-Assamese ... spoken in:
> *Manipur* ... other names for this language: Meetei
> *ꯀ꯭ꯋꯥꯀꯤꯕꯤ ꯍꯉꯥꯝꯄꯥꯜ kwakibi hangampal*
>
>    - Flowers of India
>    
> <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Small%20Flowered%20Vanda.html>,
>    retrieved January 10, 2025
>
> ~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
> written in: *Devanagari* (मराठी) ... spoken in: *Maharashtra*, Karnataka
> *हाडाचा लसूण hadacha lasun*
>
>    - The Gazetteer Department - Maharashtra State ... महाराष्ट्रातील
>    वनस्पतीशास्त्र आणि वनसंपदा
>    
> <https://gazetteers.maharashtra.gov.in/cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Vansampada/PDF/271-546.pdf>
>
> *पिवळी वंदा pivali vanda*
>
>    - name coined, for want of name, by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author
>    of *Flowers of Sahyadri*, the first among the three field guides to
>    identify plants of northern Western Ghats of India, based on flowers
>
> ~~~~~ MIZO ~~~~~
> written in: *Latin*, Bengali-Assamese ... spoken in: *Mizoram* ... other
> names for this language: Lushai, Duhlian
> *nau-bân*
>
>    - for want of name; nau-bân = common name for any tree-orchid ... 
> Dictionary
>    of the Lushai language
>    <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/lorrain/> by James Herbert
>    Lorrain
>
> ~~~~~ MUNDARI ~~~~~
> written in: *Mundari Bani*, Odia, Devanagari, Bengali, Latin ... spoken
> in: *Jharkhand*, Odisha
> *मदुकम madukam*
>
>    - for *Vanda parviflora* Lindl. ... The Useful Plants of India
>    
> <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n679/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Vanda>,
>    Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR
>
> ~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~
> written in: *Devanagari* (नेपाली) ... spoken in: *Nepal*, *West Bengal*,
> *Assam*, *Sikkim*
> *हरजोर harajor*
>
>    - Many thanks to Saroj Kumar Kasaju for help with this name ...
>    efloraofindia
>    <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/g3F0e6wvO80/m/_J6A6D82AQAJ>
>
> ~~~~~ ODIA ~~~~~
> written in: *Odia* (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) ... spoken in: *Odisha*, Andaman & Nicobar
> Islands
> *ମଲାଙ୍ଗ malanga*
>
>    - Dash, Prasad & Sahoo, Santi & Bal, Subhasisa. (2008). Ethnobotanical
>    Studies on Orchids of Niyamgiri Hill Ranges, Orissa, India.
>    <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41115608> Ethnobotanical
>    Leaflets. 12.
>
> *ରାସ୍ନା rasna*
>
>    - Kumar, Sanjeet & Mishra, Sweta & Mishra, Arun & Kumar N, Sanath.
>    (2023). Floral diversity of Koira and Barsuan Ranges, Bonai Forest
>    Division, Odisha
>    
> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374233729_Floral_diversity_of_Koira_and_Barsuan_Ranges_Bonai_Forest_Division_Odisha>
>
> ~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~
> written in: *Tamil* (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: *Tamil Nadu*, Puducherry,
> Andaman & Nicobar Islands
> *சிறுமலர் வாண்டா cirumalar vanda*
>
>    - name coined, for want of name; சிறுமலர் வாண்டா cirumalar vanda =
>    small-flowered vanda, based on names coined for this species in English as
>    well as in various other regional languages
>    - also based on lines of நீல மலர் வாண்டா nila malar vanda =
>    blue-flowered vanda, a name given to *Vanda coerulea* ... Tamil names
>    of Botanical names
>    
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=EIE5EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false>
>    by Yercaud Ilango
>
> ~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
> written in: *Telugu* ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: *Andhra Pradesh*,
> *Telangana*, Puducherry
> *బదనిక badanika, మర్దారు mardaru*
>
>    - Raju, Vatsavaya & Chintala, Sudhakar Reddy & Kn, Reddy. (2008). Orchid
>    wealth of Andhra Pradesh, India.
>    <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262007934> Proceedings of
>    Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. 12. 180-192.
>
> *మొల్లందానా mollandana*
>
>    - Seetharami Reddi and O. Aniel Kumar, J. K. R. J. S. T. “Ethnomedicine
>    of the Gadabas, a Primitive Tribe of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh
>    <https://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/imrj/article/view/1469>”.
>    International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2011
>
> *వజనికా vajnika*
>
>    - FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
>    
> <https://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/62134a1657c9e3e289cb4820bdcd9a8e/b456af3c184637adfc84b51d1f69cbe3>
>    - for *Vanda parviflora* Lindl. ... The Useful Plants of India
>    
> <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n679/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Vanda>,
>    Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR
>
> ~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
> Andhra Pradesh, ***Arunachal Pradesh, ***Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa,
> Gujarat, ***Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya
> Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, ***Nagaland, Odisha, ***Rajasthan,
> Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, ***Tripura, ***Uttarakhand, West Bengal
>
>    - Gujarat :: Checklist of Gujarat Flora
>    
> <https://archive.org/details/checklist-of-gujarat-flora/page/66/mode/2up?q=Vanda&view=theater>
>    - Telangana :: Telangana Forest Department
>    <https://forests.telangana.gov.in/Pages/flora.aspx> - by R D Reddy
>    - Tripura :: Baishnab, B., Paul, S., Banik, B., Kumar Chowdhury, A., &
>    Kumar Datta, B. (2022). Eight new additions to the Orchid flora of
>    Tripura, NE India.
>    <https://nelumbo-bsi.org/index.php/nlmbo/article/view/166851> Nelumbo,
>    64(2), 210–219.
>    - Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist
>    and Distribution of the World Flora.
>    <https://www.worldplants.de/world-plants-complete-list/complete-plant-list>
>    Version 25.01; last update January 2nd, 2025. Last accessed 10/01/2025
>    (dd/mm/yyyy).
>
> *** no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the
> state
> ~~~~~ Created on: 10:03 10-01-2025 ¦ Last updated: 13:07 12-01-2025 ~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> Names compiled / updated at
> https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/01/vanda-testacea-lindl-rchbf.html
>
> Regards.
> Dinesh
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Names compiled / updated at
>> https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/01/vanda-testacea-lindl-rchbf.html
>>
>> Regards.
>> Dinesh
>>
>> On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 21:42:21 UTC+5:30 Balkar wrote:
>>
>>> Very Very Beautiful Dinesh Ji
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many thanks Giby ji for the Malayalam name.
>>>> Regards.
>>>> Dinesh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In malayalam a group of orchids ie Acampe spp., Vanda spp. and Aerides
>>>>> spp. are called as *Maravazha *by local people*. *People use the leaf
>>>>> extract of any of these species to cure infections in the ear.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Giby
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25 May 2012 16:48, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> via Species
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species>‎ > ‎V
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/v>‎ >
>>>>>> ‎
>>>>>> *Vanda testacea* (Lindl.) Rchb.f. ... (family: Orchidaceae)
>>>>>> [image: Vanda testacea (Lindl.) Rchb.f.]
>>>>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/7260544418/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: Flowers of India]
>>>>>> <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Small%20Flowered%20Vanda.html>
>>>>>> [image: Discussions at efloraofindia]
>>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Vanda%20testacea>
>>>>>> [image: more views in flickr]
>>>>>> <http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Vandatestacea&m=tags&z=m>  [image:
>>>>>> more views on Google Earth]
>>>>>> <http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/india/&tags=Vandatestacea&format=kml_nl>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *VAN-duh* -- from Sanskrit, referring to the *Vanda* orchids and
>>>>>> some other epiphytic plants ... Dave's Botanary
>>>>>> <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/>
>>>>>> *test-uh-SEE-uh* -- shell covered, referring to fruit covering ... 
>>>>>> Dictionary
>>>>>> of Botanical Epithets
>>>>>> <http://www.winternet.com/%7Echuckg/dictionary.html>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *commonly known as*: the small flowered vanda
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/the-small-flowered-vanda>
>>>>>> • *Kannada*: ¿ ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸ್ನಾ
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/kannada/kiri-rasna-kiri-raasna>
>>>>>> ? kiri raasna
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/kannada/kiri-rasna-kiri-raasna>
>>>>>> • *Marathi*: पिवळी वंदा pivali vanda
>>>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/pivali-vanda-pivali-vanda>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *botanical names*: *Vanda testacea* (Lindl.) Rchb.f. ... *synonyms*: 
>>>>>> *Aerides
>>>>>> testacea* Lindl. • *Aerides wightiana* Lindl. • *Aerides wrightiana*
>>>>>> Lindl. ex Wall. [Invalid] • *Vanda parviflora* Lindl. • *Vanda
>>>>>> vitellina* Kraenzl. ... The Plants List
>>>>>> <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-211557>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>>>>>> ~ ~ ~
>>>>>> Photographed at Yeoor Hills (part of Sanjay Gandhi National Park) ...
>>>>>> 20 MAY 12
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Need help on resolving the Kannada name *kiri raasna* ... referred ENVIS
>>>>>> - FRLHT
>>>>>> <http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4064&parname=0>
>>>>>> Please validate the name put in native script: ಕಿರಿ ರಾಸ್ನಾ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>> Dinesh
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD
>>>>> Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
>>>>> Royal Enclave,
>>>>> Jakkur Post, Srirampura
>>>>> Bangalore- 560064
>>>>> India
>>>>> Phone - +91 9448714856 <+91%2094487%2014856> +919947109987
>>>>> <+91%2099471%2009987> (Mobile)
>>>>> visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Dr Balkar Singh
>>> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
>>> Arya P G College, Panipat
>>> Haryana-132103
>>> 09416262964
>>>
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