*Zornia gibbosa* Span.
[image: Zornia gibbosa Span.]
<https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125758740>

*zor-NEE-uh* -- named after Johannes Zorn - German pharmacist and botanist
... Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Zorn>
*gib-OH-suh* -- swollen on one side ... Dave's Botanary
<http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=gibbosa>

*commonly known as*: grasslike zornia • *Bengali*: বীরমচ birmoch, জাপানি
তাণ্ডি japani tandi • *Chhattisgarhi*: नील मारी neel mari, समरपानी
samarpani • *Gujarati*: સમરાપાની samarapani • *Hindi*: चकरी को चारो chakari
ko charo • *Kachchhi*: બેપની bepani • *Kannada*: ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti,
ನೆಲ್ಲು ಜೊಳ್ಳು ಸೊಪ್ಪು nellu jollu soppu • *Konkani*: लांडगु landgu •
*Kumaoni*: द्विपात dwipat • *Malayalam*: കൊഴുപ്പ kozhuppa, മുറികൂട്ടി
murikkotti • *Marathi*: लांडगु landgu • *Mundari*: karkia tasad, luduludia
tasad • *Pahari*: सम्योजकी samyojaki • *Rajasthani*: रूणकारी roonkari •
*Santali*: ᱴᱟᱹᱱᱰᱤ ᱡᱷᱟᱹᱯᱱᱤ tandi jhapni • *Tamil*: பொரி கரப்பான் தளை pori
karappan thalai • *Telugu*: నేలబరికి nela bariki • *Tulu*: ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu
potti


*botanical names*: *Zornia gibbosa* Span. ... *heterotypic synonyms*: *Zornia
angustifolia* Sm. • *Zornia graminea* Span. ... and more at POWO
<https://powo.science.kew.org/>, retrieved 07 March 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
*grasslike zornia*

   - for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India
   <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Grasslike%20Zornia.html>,
   retrieved March 07, 2025

~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~
written in: *Bengali* (বাংলা) ... spoken in: *West Bengal*, Assam,
Jharkhand, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
*বীরমচ birmoch, জাপানি তাণ্ডি japani tandi*

   - Flora - Mehedi Voice <https://mehedivoice.blogspot.com/p/flora.html>

~~~~~ CHHATTISGARHI ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* (छत्तीसगढ़ी) ... spoken in: *Chhattisgarh*,
Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra ... counted by the Indian national
census as a dialect of Hindi
*नील मारी neel mari*

   - P. Dewangan and V. Acharya - Diversity of Family Leguminosae in Raipur
   District of Chhattisgarh (India)
   <https://biology-journal.org/journal/volume32/issue63/ijapb32-1-1.html>
   - Indian Journal of Applied & Pure Biology. Vol. 32(1), 1-8 (2017).

*समरपानी samarpani*

   - Vijay Laxmi Naidu, "Diversity of Forest Herbs during Winters in the
   Reserve Forest of Bhupdeopur of District Raigarh Chhattisgarh
   <https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR21721153541>",
   International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 10 Issue 7,
   July 2021, pp. 1105-1109,

~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~
written in: *Gujarati* (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: *Gujarat*, *Dadra & Nagar
Haveli*, *Daman & Diu*
*સમરાપાની samarapani*

   - Biological Diversity of Gujarat
   
<https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=53e359a6d4c118a12a8b45b8&assetKey=AS%3A273575079022597%401442236789815>
   - published by Gujarat Ecology Commission [accessed on: 16 Dec 2020]

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: *Delhi*, *Uttar Pradesh*,
*Bihar*, *Chhattisgarh*, *Haryana*, *Jharkhand*, *Madhya Pradesh*,
Rajasthan, *Uttarakhand*
*चकरी को चारो chakari ko charo*

   - Ray, Sudip and Sainkhediya, Jeetendra (2014). Threatened weeds of Bt
   cotton field in Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh.
   <http://researchjournal.co.in/upload/assignments/9_84-87_55.pdf> Asian
   J. Bio. Sci., 9(1):84-87.

~~~~~ KACHCHHI ~~~~~
written in: *Gujarati* (કચ્છી), Sindhi (ڪڇّي) ... spoken in: *Kutch* region
of Gujarat
*બેપની bepani*

   - Patel, Yatin & Patel, Rohitkumar & Pankaj, Joshi & Dabgar, Yogesh.
   (2011). Study of the Angiospermic flora of Kachchh district, Gujarat,
   India.
   
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236020734_Study_of_the_Angiospermic_flora_of_Kachchh_district_Gujarat_India>
   Life Sciences Leaflets. 19. 739-768.

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
written in: *Kannada* (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: *Karnataka*
*ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti*

   - Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional
   medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and
   Karnataka
   
<http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/41951/10/10_chapter%204.pdf>
   - Shodhganga ... ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti = bone fracture; indicates its
   therapeutic efficacy in healing bone fracture

*ಹರಡಹಚ್ಚಗ haradahacchaga*

   - not confident; the name rendered in native script needs validation
   - Parimala, R & Hegde, G R (2011) - Flora of Dharwad district - Part 1
   
<https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/96368/7/07_chapter%201.pdf>
   - Shodhganga
   - M U, Anjali & Shrikanth, Padigar & Aithal, Ravikrishna. (2020). A
   Review on Extrapharmacopoeial Drugs beneficial in Vatavyadhi INTRODUCTION.
   <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343760161> Journal of Ayurveda
   and Integrated Medical Sciences | Nov - Dec 2019 | Vol. 4 | Issue 6

*ನೆಲ್ಲು ಜೊಳ್ಳು ಸೊಪ್ಪು nellu jollu soppu*

   - Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional
   medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and
   Karnataka
   
<http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/41951/10/10_chapter%204.pdf>
   - Shodhganga
   - S G Narsimhachar - Latin and Kannada names of indigenous and medicinal
   plants of Mysore
   <http://mdl.mandayamsabha.in/uploads/book/bk_1605597283.pdf> - Mandayam
   Digital Library

*ಸಾಪನಳಿಗೆ sapanalige*

   - not confident; the name rendered in native script needs validation
   - Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist,
   Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.
   
<https://kbb.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/Flora%20of%20Karnataka/Part%202.pdf>
   1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)
   - Yashpal Kshirsagar IFS, Sonal Vrishni IFS - Kappathagudda - A
   Repertoire of Medicinal Plants of Gadag
   
<https://kampa.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/publications/MediicnalPlantsofKappathgudda.pdf>
   - Karnataka State Medicinal Plants Authority (KaMPA)

~~~~~ 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
*लांडगु landgu*

   - Biodiversity in Goa
   <http://goafoundation.org/biodiversity-in-goa/annexure6b.htm> - Flora of
   Goa (webpage expected to become available after website is entirely
   overhauled)

~~~~~ KUMAONI ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* ... spoken in: *Uttarakhand*
*द्विपात dwipat*

   - Naveen Chandra Pandey, Neha Chopra, G.C. Joshi and Lalit M. Tewari
   (2020). Diversity of Legumes of Betalghat, Kumaun, Western Himalaya
   <https://biolifejournals.com/issueslist.php?cat_id=31> - Biolife; 2020,
   8(2); pp 1-9

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~
written in: *Malayalam* (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: *Kerala*, Lakshadweep
*കൊഴുപ്പ kozhuppa*

   - Many thanks to Vinaya Raj V R for help with this name ... facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/Malayalamplantnames/permalink/733536206843732/?comment_id=733612676836085&notif_id=1510403636364644&notif_t=group_comment>

*മുറികൂട്ടി murikkotti*

   - Many thanks to Vinaya Raj V R for help with this name ... facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/Malayalamplantnames/permalink/733536206843732/?comment_id=733612676836085&notif_id=1510403636364644&notif_t=group_comment>
   - Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional
   medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and
   Karnataka
   
<http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/41951/10/10_chapter%204.pdf>
   - Shodhganga

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* (मराठी) ... spoken in: *Maharashtra*, Karnataka
*लांडगु landgu*

   - *Further Flowers of Sahyadri* by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the second
   among the three field guides to identify plants of northern Western Ghats
   of India, based on flowers
   - Greening Mumbai
   
<https://portal.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/HomePage%20Data/Related%20Links/GREENING%20MUMBAI-Citizen%27s%20handbook%20for%20greening%20initiatives.pdf>
   = Citizen's Handbook for greening initiatives from balcony gardens to large
   scale plots
   - The Useful Plants of India
   
<https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n715/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Zornia>,
   Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

~~~~~ MUNDARI ~~~~~
written in: *Mundari Bani*, Odia, Devanagari, Bengali, Latin ... spoken in:
*Jharkhand*, Odisha
*karkia tasad, luduludia tasad*

   - The Useful Plants of India
   
<https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n715/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Zornia>,
   Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

~~~~~ PAHARI (or PAHADI) ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* (पहाड़ी), Perso-Arabic (پہاڑی) ... variety of
languages, dialects and language groups, spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
and Kashmir, Uttarakhand
*सम्योजकी samyojaki*

   - Neelam Kumar - Studies on Plant Diversity of Tehsil Joginder Nagar,
   District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
   
<https://www.jecet.org/download_frontend.php?id=79&table=Env%20Science&ved=2ahUKEwjhupzqo_qLAxUtSGwGHU5bINY4FBAWegQIExAB&usg=AOvVaw2iDpvROIWKBZHfLe-F2OaE>
   - JECET, June 2014 - August 2014; Sec.A, Vol.3. No.3, 1272-1281.

~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~
written in: *Devanagari* (राजस्थानी) ... spoken in: *Rajasthan*
*रूणकारी roonkari*

   - The Useful Plants of India
   
<https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n715/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Zornia>,
   Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR
   - Raj Kumar Gupta, B. K. Dutta - Vernacular names of the useful plants
   of north-west Indian arid regions
   <https://www.persee.fr/doc/jatba_0021-7662_1967_num_14_10_2945> -
   Journal d'Agriculture Traditionnelle et de Botanique Appliquée | Year 1967
   | 14-10-11 | pp. 402-453

~~~~~ SANTALI ~~~~~
written in: *Ol Chiki* (ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ), Bengali (সাঁওতালী), Odia (ସାନ୍ତାଳୀ),
Devanagari (सान्ताली), Roman ... spoken in: *Jharkhand*, *West Bengal*,
Odisha
*ᱴᱟᱹᱱᱰᱤ ᱡᱷᱟᱹᱯᱱᱤ tandi jhapni*

   - The Useful Plants of India
   
<https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n715/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Zornia>,
   Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~
written in: *Tamil* (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: *Tamil Nadu*, Puducherry,
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
*பொரி கரப்பான் தளை pori karappan thalai*

   - Tamil names of Botanical names
   
<https://books.google.com/books?id=EIE5EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false>
   by Yercaud Ilango
   - Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online
   <https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/herbsheet.php?id=12654&cat=13> by
   Herbarium JCB. Downloaded on 7 March 2025.

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
written in: *Telugu* ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: *Andhra Pradesh*, *Telangana*,
Puducherry
*నేలబరికి nela bariki*

   - Flora Andhrika
   <https://floraandhrika.blogspot.com/search?q=Zornia+gibbosa> - Plant
   Wealth of Andhra Pradesh, India

~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~
written in: *Tigalari (Tulu)* was used for writing Vedic texts in Sanskrit,
*Kannada* (ತುಳು), Malayalam (തുളു) ... spoken in: *Karnataka*, north Kerala
*ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti*

   - Subrahmanya, Prasad K - Exploration and elucidation of traditional
   medicinal plants of erstwhile Tulunadu and surrounding area of Kerala and
   Karnataka
   
<http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/41951/10/10_chapter%204.pdf>
   - Shodhganga ... ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti = bone fracture; indicates its
   therapeutic efficacy in healing bone fracture

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Andaman & Nicobar islands, Andhra Pradesh, ***Arunachal Pradesh, ***Assam,
***Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Diu & Daman, ***Delhi,
Goa, Gujarat, ***Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, ***Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka,
Lakshadweep islands, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha,
Puducherry, ***Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, ***Tripura, ***Uttar Pradesh,
West Bengal

   - 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 25.02; last update February 25th, 2025. Last accessed 07/03/2025
   (dd/mm/yyyy).
   - ILDIS World Database of Legumes
   <http://www.legumes-online.net/ildis/aweb/td086/td_18150.htm> - Version
   10.38 20 July 2010 [accessed: 09 March 2025]

*** no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state
~~~~~ Created on: 14:02 07-03-2025 ¦ Last updated: 12:40 09-03-2025
(dd/mm/yyyy) ~~~~~





Names compiled / updated at
https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/03/zornia-gibbosa-span.html

Regards.
Dinesh



On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Names compiled / updated at
> https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/03/zornia-gibbosa-span.html
>
> Regards.
> Dinesh
>
> On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 10:36:42 UTC+5:30 JM Garg wrote:
>
>> Very beautiful presentation.
>>
>> On 13-Nov-2017 10:02 AM, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> via Species
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species>‎ > ‎Z
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/z>‎ > ‎
>>> *Zornia gibbosa* Span. ... *family*: Papilionaceae ~ Fabaceae *s.l.*
>>>
>>> [image: Zornia gibbosa Span.]
>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5025403752%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNER-6CpiGefzE0sEDzz8A6xia-fgw>
>>>
>>> [image: Flowers of India]
>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersofindia.net%2Frisearch%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3DZornia%2Bgibbosa%26stpos%3D0%26stype%3DAND&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHRMPMXgwkSsKXuE2ytUPYzL2ysrA>
>>>  [image: Discussions at efloraofindia]
>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Zornia%20gibbosa>
>>>  [image: more views in flickr]
>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fsearch%2F%3Fq%3DZorniagibbosa%26m%3Dtags%26z%3Dm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGJovYiR13ucJ8wfy4vTxGQJhL3Yw>
>>>  [image: more views on Google Earth]
>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.flickr.com%2Fservices%2Ffeeds%2Fgeo%2Findia%2F%26tags%3DZorniagibbosa%26format%3Dkml_nl&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHip8mYNXgpn7KXSPcyivnHFO-jDA>
>>>
>>>
>>> *zor-NEE-uh* -- named after Johannes Zorn - German pharmacist and
>>> botanist ... Wikipedia
>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJohannes_Zorn&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEzYUVeEL5YrL97409kcf2b_VreIg>
>>> *gib-OH-suh* -- swollen on one side ... Dave's Botanary
>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesgarden.com%2Fguides%2Fbotanary%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearch_text%3Dgibbosa&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEoWvWwLeUrQO6w2pNCJZtcFrdeBA>
>>>
>>>
>>> *commonly known as*: grass-like zornia
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/grass-like-zornia>
>>> • *Kannada*: ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/kannada/elu-potti-elu-potti>,
>>> ನೆಲ್ಲು ಜೊಳ್ಳು ಸೊಪ್ಪು nellu jollu soppu
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/kannada/nellu-jollu-soppu-nellu-jollu-soppu>
>>> • *Konkani*: लांडगु landgu
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/konkani/landagu-landgu>
>>> • *Malayalam*: കൊഴുപ്പ kozhuppa
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/malayalam/kealuppa-koluppa>,
>>> മുറികൂട്ടി murikkotti
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/malayalam/murikutti-murikkotti>
>>> • *Marathi*: लांडगु landgu
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/landagu-landgu>
>>> • *Telugu*: నేలబరికి nela bariki
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/nelabariki-nela-bariki>
>>> • *Tulu*: ಎಲು ಪೊಟ್ಟಿ elu potti
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/tulu/elu-potti-elu-potti>
>>>
>>>
>>> *botanical names*: *Zornia gibbosa* Span. ... *synonyms*: *Zornia
>>> augustifolia* sensu auct. • *Zornia graminea* Span. ... status at *The
>>> Plants List* (2013). Version 1.1.
>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theplantlist.org%2Ftpl1.1%2Frecord%2Fild-46371&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNER0M1n7M7Kzs3jgYW0BQ0P9kGhuQ>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> September 25, 2010 ... at base of Sarasgad
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> Dinesh
>>>
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