Dear Dinesh ji, In Malayalam, chuli ചുളി or chulivu means wrinkles, but I doesn't observe any kind of wrinkled charector related to the plant, and the plant is growing in fresh water or swampy habitat, simply neglected area filled with water. As growing in this habitat, it is named in Malayalam as *chelithamara ചെളിതാമര, cheli* means mud with or without water, *താമര thamara* means lotus (truly it is not a lotus, but having lotus type charectors) and wrongly named as 'chuli'. If anywhere described that the plant has wrinkles, we can accept the name chulithamara ചുളിതാമര. And the name 'ചുഴി chuzhi' means whirl.
Another name *kuzhithamara കുഴിതാമര* (കുഴി means pit) is correct. Regards, Sam. On Fri, 17 Oct, 2025, 3:10 pm Dinesh Valke, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sam ji, also please check / validate this name found in A Malayalam > and English dictionary <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/gundert/> > by Hermann Gundert > കുഴിത്താ താമര kuzhithaa thaamara > > Regards. > Dinesh > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Sam ji, >> Please help validate whether the Malayalam name culi tamara of *Limnophyton >> obtusifolium* (L.) Miq. listed in FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal >> Plants >> <https://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/2797/abd2cdedc0194d8fac3cd520e4695745> >> is >> written as ചുഴി താമര chuli taamara. >> >> 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/CADkXgDQdMgSug-nF5vhX5qPHaMVO4b%3DQDQfLHUTOQpb%2BjwTT5w%40mail.gmail.com.
