Desmos chinensis Lour.

DES-mos -- Greek: desmos (band or chain) ... Dave's Botanary
chi-NEN-sis -- of or from China ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: dwarf ylang-ylang, Sahyadri ylang-ylang • Assamese: বন চেনিচম্পা ban chenichampa, জোৰ লেৱা joorlewa • Malayalam: കാരപ്പൂമരം karappumaram • Marathi: रानचाफा ranchapha • Mizo: zunin-damdawi • Nepali: माले लहरा maale lahara


botanical names: Desmos chinensis Lour. ... synonyms: Desmos chinensis var. lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Bân • Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. • Unona lawii Hook.f. & Thomson ... and many more synoyms listed at POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

dwarf ylang-ylang

• Wikipedia

Sahyadri ylang-ylang

• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... this name is based on the distribution of plant in the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) of India ranging to Sri Lanka; the yellowish-green flowers are similar to those of ylang-ylang, a name given to flowers of Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson ... Wikipedia

~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~

বন চেনিচম্পা ban chenichampa

• Many thanks to Farmer Tridip Gogoi for help with this name ... facebook

জোৰ লেৱা joorlewa

• Many thanks to Brahmananda Patiri for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

ಕರಿಬೀಳು karibeelu

• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... Floristic inventory in the seven medicinal plants conservation areas MPCAs of Karnataka, India by P S Udayan

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

കാരപ്പൂമരം karappumaram

• Wikipedia

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

रान चाफा ran chapha

• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... Further Flowers of Sahyadri, a field guide to identify flowers of northern Western Ghats of India by Shrikant Ingalhalikar

~~~~~ MIZO ~~~~~

zunin-damdawi

• Rai, Prabhat. (2010). Ethnomedicinal Plant Resources of Mizoram, India: Implication of Traditional Knowledge in Health Care System. Ethnobotanical Leaflets. 14.
• Documentation of Medicinal Plants based on Traditional Practices in the Indo-Burma Hotspots Region of Mizoram, North East India by H. Lalramnghinglova

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

माले लहरा maale lahara

• Wikipedia

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

no given name

• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~

no given name

• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION ~~~~~

• for Desmos chinensis Lour. ... global distribution: s China to tropical Asia ... POWO
• for synonym Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. ... endemic distribution: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)

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