Geranium nepalense Sweet

jer-AY-nee-um -- from the Greek geranos, crane; referring to the beak-like fruit ... Dave's Botanary
nap-ahl-EN-see or nap-ahl-EN-say -- of or from Nepal ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: Nepal geranium, Nepalese crane's bill • Hindi: भण्डा bhanda, फोड़ी phori, रतनजोत ratanjot, सिउँली syunli • Kashmiri: रोएल roel • Nepali: चुनित्रो घाँस chunitro ghans • Punjabi: ਭਾਂਡ bhand • Sanskrir: भण्डा bhanda • Tibetan: མིག་སྨན mig-sman


botanical names: Geranium nepalense Sweet ... heterotypic synonyms: Geranium pallidum Royle ex Edgew. & Hook.f. • Geranium patens Royle ex Edgew. & Hook.f. • Geranium radicans DC. ... and many more listed at POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

Nepal geranium

• Flowers of India

Nepalese crane's bill

• Practical Plants
• crane's bill - generic name given to perennial geraniums - so called for their long, slender fruit alluding to beak or bill of a crane

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

भण्डा bhanda

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• The Useful Plants of India by NISCAIR
• the name भण्डा transliterated in native script may not be exact

फोड़ी phori

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• Gairola, Sumeet Phytodiversity (Angiosperms and Gymnosperms) in Chaurangikhal forest of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 3 No. 3 (Mar 2010)
• the name फोड़ी transliterated in native script may not be exact

रतनजोत ratanjot

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• In literature, the vernacular name ratanjot is attributed to at least 15 plant species of four different families ... Anjali Arora, M L Gulrajani and Deepti Gupta - Identification and characterization of Ratanjot (Arnebia nobilis Reichb.f.) - Natural Product Radiance, Vol. 8(2), 2009, pp.142-145

सिउँली syunli

• FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
• NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository - R D Gaur - Traditional dye yielding plants of Uttarakhand, India - Natural Product Radiance, Vol. 7(2), 2008, pp.154-165

~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~

रोएल roel

• The Useful Plants of India by NISCAIR
• the name रोएल transliterated in native script may not be exact

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

चुनित्रो घाँस chunitro ghans

• Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal

~~~~~ PUNJABI ~~~~~

ਭਾਂਡ bhand

• The Useful Plants of India by NISCAIR
• the name ਭਾਂਡ transliterated in native script may not be exact

~~~~~ SANSKRIT ~~~~~

भण्डा bhanda

• Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary by C.P. Khare

~~~~~ TIBETAN ~~~~~

མིག་སྨན mig-sman

• A Glossary of Tibetan Medicinal Plants by Mia MoIvray - a publication for the study of Tibetan Medicine published by the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives

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Geraniaceae "geranium family" perennial native herb "Geranium nepalense" "Geranium pallidum" "Geranium patens" "Geranium radicans" "Nepal geranium" "Nepalese crane's bill" भण्डा फोड़ी रतनजोत सिउँली रोएल "चुनित्रो घाँस" ਭਾਂਡ "མིག་སྨན"