Nice picture and excellent efforts dear Dinesh ji. The Malayalam name for *Rungia crenata* is *പുനകപുല്ല് Punakapullu, തവളതുമ്പ Thavalathumba.* Regards, Sam.
On Thu, 24 Jul, 2025, 12:19 pm Dinesh Valke, <[email protected]> wrote: > *Rungia crenata* T.Anderson > [image: Rungia crenata T.Anderson] > <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107687613> > > *RUN-jee-uh* -- named for Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, a German professor > ... Dave's Botanary > <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=Rungia> • > Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedlieb_Ferdinand_Runge> > *kre-NAY-tuh* or *kre-NAH-tuh* -- scalloped ... Dave's Botanary > <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=crenata> > > *commonly known as*: blue-throat rungia, toothed rungia • *Konkani*: > पितपापड pitpapad • *Marathi*: शिंप पित्तपापडा shimpa pittapapada > > > *botanical names*: *Rungia crenata* T.Anderson ... *synonyms*: *Diapedium > crenatum* (T.Anderson) Kuntze • *Justicia crenatifolia* J.R.I.Wood *nom. > nov.* (2014) ... 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 25.07; last update July 5th, 2025. Last accessed 23/07/2025 > (dd/mm/yyyy). > 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 > *blue-throat rungia, toothed rungia* > > - for want of name, names coined by Flowers of India > <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Blue-Throat%20Rungia.html>, > retrieved July 23, 2025 > > ~~~~~ 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 > *पितपापड pitpapad* > > - Enumeration of plants from Gomantak India > > <http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/153789/10/09_chapter%205.pdf> > with a note on botanical excursions to the Castlerock area by V D Vartak > - Dalgado, Daniel Gelanio. Flora de Goa e Savantvadi: catalogo > methodico das plantas medicinaes, alimentares e industriaes. > > <https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Flora_de_Goa_e_Savantvadi/94dIAAAAYAAJ?hl=en> > Portugal, Imprensa Nacional, 1898. > > ~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~ > written in: *Devanagari* (मराठी) ... spoken in: *Maharashtra*, Karnataka > *शिंप पित्तपापडा shimpa pittapapada* > > - name coined, for want of name; on lines of *Justicia procumbens* L. > known by the popular name घाटी पित्तपापडा ghati pittapapada and शिंप > shimpa = derived from the epithet *crenata*, meaning scalloped, the > array of bracts alluding to scallops (bivalve molluscs) > > ~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~ > Goa, ***Karnataka, ***Kerala, Maharashtra, ***Tamil Nadu; endemic > > - 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 25.07; last update July 5th, 2025. Last accessed 23/07/2025 > (dd/mm/yyyy). > - Kerala, Tamil Nadu :: 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%201.pdf> > 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board) > > *** no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the > state > ~~~~~ Created on: 11:33 23-07-2025 ¦ Last updated: 10:49 24-07-2025 > (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~ > > > > > > > Names compiled / updated at > https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/07/rungia-crenata-tanderson.html > > 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 view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CADkXgDRh%3Dm6E7F-UGDSaqULkz2-MvGepBNLy7WbQej2Vw4kvXg%40mail.gmail.com.
