Elatostema cuneatum Wight

ee-lay-toh-STEM-uh -- Greek: elatos (driving or striking); stema (stamen), referring to the stamens springing up ... Dave's Botanary
kew-nee-AH-tum or kew-nee-AY-tum -- wedge-shaped ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: wedge-shaped soft nettle • Konkani: पाथोर पाल्लो pathor pallo • Marathi: खडक पालक khadak palak • Tawang Monpa tribe: chulukpa


botanical names: Elatostema cuneatum Wight ... synonyms: Elatostema approximatum Wedd. • Elatostema densiflorum Franch. & Sav. • Elatostema nipponicum Makino • Elatostema webbianum Wedd. • Procris approximata Wall. ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

wedge-shaped soft nettle

• name given for want of specific common name
  wedge-shaped - derived from the epithet cuneatum, in context of leaf shape -- ... Dave's Botanary
  soft nettle = non-stinging nettle, most of Elatostema spp. are wild edible plants ... Upadhyay, Ashutosh & Gogoi, Rajib & Mitra, Prashanta. (2021). Ethnobotany of Elatostema J.R. Forster & G. Forster (Urticaceae). Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 21. 1-24. 10.32859/era.27.01.1-24.

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

पाथोर पाल्लो pathor pallo

• name given for want of name ... पाथोर pathor = stone; पाल्लो pallo = greens ... for the plant's lithophytic habit and for being edible greens

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

खडक पालक khadak palak

• name given for want of name ... खडक पालक khadak palak = rock spinach ... for the plant's lithophytic habit and for being consumed by tribal folks, as edible greens

~~~~~ Tawang Monpa tribe ~~~~~

chulukpa

• Jambey Tsering, BJ Gogoi, Pallabi K Hui N Tam & Hui Tag - Ethnobotanical appraisal on wild edible plants used by the Monpa community of Arunachal Pradesh. IJTK Vol.16 (4), October 2017, pp. 626-637

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