*Sesuvium portulacastrum* (L.) L. [image: Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.] <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153540889>
*ses-OO-vee-um* -- from the area inhabited by the Sesuvii, a Gallic tribe ... Dave's Botanary <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=Sesuvium> *port-yoo-luh-KAS-trum* -- resembles *Portulaca* ... Dave's Botanary <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=portulacastrum> *commonly known as*: sea purslane, shore purslane • *Bengali*: জাদু পালং jadu palang • *Gujarati*: મંજાર manjaar • *Kachchhi*: ખારીયુ khariyu • *Konkani*: धाप dhap • *Malayalam*: സാമ്പാർ ചീര saambar cheera • *Marathi*: धापा dhapa • *Odia*: goda bani • *Rajasthani*: लूणीयो lunio • *Tamil*: கடல் வழுக்கைக்கீரை katal valukkaikkirai, பவளவங்காரவாச்சி pavala-vankaara-vaacci • *Telugu*: వంగరేడు కూర vangaredu koora, వంగరేసి కూర vangaressi koora *botanical names*: *Sesuvium portulacastrum* (L.) L. ... *homotypic synonyms*: *Halimus portulacastrum* (L.) Kuntze • *Portulaca portulacastrum* L. ... and more at POWO <https://powo.science.kew.org/>, retrieved 13 October 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 *sea purslane, shore purslane* - Flowers of India <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sea%20Purslane.html>, retrieved October 13, 2025 ~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~ written in: *Bengali* (বাংলা) ... spoken in: *West Bengal*, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands *জাদু পালং jadu palang* - Flora - Mehedi Voice <https://mehedivoice.blogspot.com/p/flora.html> ~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~ written in: *Gujarati* (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: *Gujarat*, *Dadra & Nagar Haveli*, *Daman & Diu* *મંજાર manjaar* - સૃષ્ટિ (અંક-૨૮, સપ્ટેમ્બર ૨૦૦૦, ચેર વિશેષાંક) <http://www.geerfoundation.gujarat.gov.in/Srushti%20PDF-3-11-2012/Ank-28.pdf> publication by Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation - ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ <https://gujarativishwakosh.org/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%85%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%97%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8B%E0%AA%B5/> - મૅન્ગ્રોવ - બળદેવભાઈ પટેલ ~~~~~ KACHCHHI ~~~~~ written in: *Gujarati* (કચ્છી), Sindhi (ڪڇّي) ... spoken in: *Kutch* region of Gujarat *ખારીયુ khariyu* - 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. ~~~~~ 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 *धाप dhap* - 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. ~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~ written in: *Malayalam* (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: *Kerala*, Lakshadweep *സാമ്പാർ ചീര saambar cheera* - Sahadevan P, Dinesan Cheruvat, Suma CC "On mangroves and mangrove associates of Puthuvypin of Ernakulam district of Kerala (South India) <https://www.allsubjectjournal.com/archives/2017/vol4/issue3/4-2-85>". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Volume 4, Issue 3,2017, Pages 134-139 ~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (मराठी) ... spoken in: *Maharashtra*, Karnataka *धापा dhapa* - The Useful Plants of India <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126090/page/n581/mode/2up?q=Sesuvium>, Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR - *Common Indian Wild Flowers* by Isaac Kehimkar - धापा dhapa = a kind of grass, also spelt as ढापा dhapa ... A dictionary, Marathi and English <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/molesworth/> by Molesworth, J. T. (James Thomas) ~~~~~ ODIA ~~~~~ written in: *Odia* (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) ... spoken in: *Odisha*, Andaman & Nicobar Islands *goda bani* - Prasanna Kumar NAYAK, Raj Kishore MOHANTA, Ananta Kumar SAHU, Kedar Kumar SWAIN - Mangroves of Mahanadi Delta in the state of Odisha and aspects of their conservation <https://ijcs.ro/public/IJCS-16-59_Nayak.pdf> - International Journal of Conservation Science, Volume 7, Issue 4, October-December 2016: 1095-1104 - the name needs to be rendered in native script ~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (राजस्थानी) ... spoken in: *Rajasthan* *लूणीयो lunio* - for want of name, generic regional name of *Sesuvium* given to this species - Rashmi Vyas, Suman C. Sharma - Study of Phytodiversity of Sikar District of Rajasthan <https://www.socialresearchfoundation.com/upoadreserchpapers/3/23/150207103752english.pdf> - Shrinkhala: Vol II, Issue II, October 2014 - Surbhi Agarwal, Dilip Gena and Jehangeer Rehman Quereishi, 2017. "Check list of the vascular plants of Nasirabad tehsil, Ajmer district <https://www.journalcra.com/article/check-list-vascular-plants-nasirabad-tehsil-ajmer-district>" International Journal of Current Research, 9, (12), 62265-62271 - Abhishek Joshi, Bhanupriya Kanthaliya, Jaya Arora - Halophytes of Thar Desert: Potential source of nutrition and feedstuff <https://www.ijbio.com/articles/halophytes-of-thar-desert-potential-source-of-nutrition-and-feedstuff.pdf> - International Journal of Bioassays 8.1 (2018) pp. 5674-5683 ~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~ written in: *Tamil* (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: *Tamil Nadu*, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands *கடல் வழுக்கைக்கீரை katal valukkaikkirai* - விக்கிப்பீடியா - கட்டற்ற கலைக் களஞ்சியம் <https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88>... Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia *பவளவங்காரவாச்சி pavala-vankaara-vaacci* - Tamil lexicon <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/tamil-lex/> [Madras], University of Madras ~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~ written in: *Telugu* ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: *Andhra Pradesh*, *Telangana*, Puducherry *వంగరేడు కూర vangaredu koora* - for *Crithmus indicus* Rumph. ... A Telugu-English dictionary <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/brown/> by Charles Philip Brown - *Crithmus indicus* Rumph. listed as a synonym of *Sesuvium portulacastrum* (L.) L. ... Giesen, Wim & Wulffraat, Stephan & Zieren, M. & Scholten, L.. (2006). Mangrove Guidebook for Southeast Asia. Bangkok: Rap Publication. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285799948> Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office For Asia and The Pacific. *వంగరేసి కూర vangaressi koora* - Flora Andhrika <https://floraandhrika.blogspot.com/search?q=Sesuvium+portulacastrum> - Plant Wealth of Andhra Pradesh, India - FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants <https://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/4757/5b821a0e0ac31ebbf6a8920171ff784e> ~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~ Andhra Pradesh, Daman, Goa, Gujarat, ***Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep islands, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, 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 25.10; last update Oct. 12th, 2025. Last accessed 13/10/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy). - Gujarat :: Checklist of Gujarat Flora <https://archive.org/details/checklist-of-gujarat-flora/page/138/mode/2up?q=Sesuvium> - West Bengal :: BENGAL PLANTS <https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20349/page/n5/mode/2up> VOL. I by PRAIN, DAVID *** no given name / no name found in the regional language(s) of the state ~~~~~ Created on: 15:18 13-10-2025 ¦ Last updated: 21:19 15-10-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~ Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2025/10/sesuvium-portulacastrum-l-l.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/CABSQqC1gQPfAgkxdmA8Xu8X%2BOjO4brpxKrDXYaxav%3DEzzNiDmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
