Flemingia nilgheriensis (Benth. ex Baker f.) Wight ex T.Cooke

flem-MING-ee-uh -- named for John Fleming, President of the Medical Board of Bengal ... Dave's Botanary
¿ nil-ghey-ree-EN-sis ? -- of or from Nilgiris, a mountain range in southernmost Western Ghats, India

commonly known as: Nilgiri flemingia • Kannada: ನೀಲಗಿರಿ ಮೂರೆಲೆ Nilgiri moorale • Malayalam: കരിമ്പാല karimbala • Marathi: निलगिरी जरतारी Nilgiri jartari


botanical names: Flemingia nilgheriensis (Benth. ex Baker f.) Wight ex T.Cooke ... homotypic synonyms: Flemingia vestita var. nilgheriensis Benth. ex Baker f. • Lepidocoma nilgheriensis (Benth. ex Baker f.) M.R.Almeida • Maughania nilgheriensis (Benth. ex Baker f.) H.L.Li ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

Nilgiri flemingia

• Flowers of India

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

ನೀಲಗಿರಿ ಮೂರೆಲೆ Nilgiri moorale

• name given for want of name; ನೀಲಗಿರಿ Nilgiri, derived from the geographical epithet nilgheriensis = of or from Nilgiris, a mountain range in southernmost Western Ghats; ಮೂರೆಲೆ moorale = three leaved plant ... on lines of the name ಕಾಡು ಮೂರೆಲೆ kaadu moorele = wild three leaved plant, given to Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze ex Merr.

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

no given name / no name found

• this species distributed in Goa ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

കരിമ്പാല karimbala

• വിക്കിപീഡിയ - സ്വതന്ത്രസർവ്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

निलगिरी जरतारी Nilgiri jartari

• name given for want of name; जरतारी jartari is a name given to a close species Flemingia gracilis (Mukerjee) Ali; the prefix निलगिरी Nilgiri derived from the geographical epithet nilgheriensis = of or from Nilgiris, a mountain range in southernmost Western Ghats

~~~~~ ODIA ~~~~~

no given name / no name found

• this species distributed in Odisha ... Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

no given name / no name found

• this species distributed in Tamil Nadu ... 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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