Geranium pratense L.

jer-AY-nee-um -- from the Greek geranos, crane; referring to the beak-like fruit ... Dave's Botanary
pray-TEN-see or pray-TEN-say -- referring to a meadow ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: meadow crane's bill, meadow geranium • Bhotia: pollo-mendok • Hindi: कशायमूल kashayamool • Kashmiri: gugchuk, karipat, ringresh • Kinnauri: likatur • Ladakhi: ག་དུར gadur, གུག་ཅུཀ་ gugchuk, स्प्रोलो sprolo • Lahauli: porlo • Nepali: राक्लामुल raklamul


botanical names: Geranium pratense L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Geranium coelestinum Schur • Geranium mariae Sennen • Geranium napellifolium Schur ... and many more listed at POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

meadow crane's bill

• The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• crane's bill - generic name given to perennial geraniums - so called for their long, slender fruit alluding to beak or bill of a crane

meadow geranium

• Flowers of India
• this name is literal translation of the botanical name - Geranium pratense

~~~~~ BHOTIA ~~~~~

pollo-mendok

• Usha Devi, M. K. Seth, Pankaj Sharma and J. C. Rana - Study on ethnomedicinal plants of Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary: A cold desert in Trans Himalaya, India - J. Med. Plants Res. Vol.7(47), pp. 3400-3419

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

कशायमूल kashayamool

• Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~

gugchuk, karipat, ringresh

• Gairola, Sumeet & Sharma, Jyotsana & Bedi, Y. S.. (2014). A cross-cultural analysis of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (India) medicinal plant use. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 155. 10.1016/j.jep.2014.06.029.

~~~~~ KINNAURI ~~~~~

likatur

• Devi, Usha & Sharma, Pankaj & Rana, Jai & Sharma, Aman. (2014). Phytodiversity assessment in Sangla valley, Northwest Himalaya, India. Check List: Journal of species lists and distribution. 10. 740-760. 10.15560/10.4.740.

~~~~~ LADAKHI ~~~~~

ག་དུར gadur, གུག་ཅུཀ་ gugchuk

• Namtak S, Sharma RC. Medicinal plant resources in Skuru watershed of Karakoram wildlife sanctuary and their uses in traditional medicines system of Ladakh, India. Int J Complement Alt Med. 2018;11(5):294-302 DOI: 10.15406/ijcam.2018.11.00415
• Field Guide - Floral Diversity of Ladakh by O P Chaurasia, Nisa Khatoon, Shashi Bala Singh

स्प्रोलो sprolo

• Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ LAHAULI ~~~~~

porlo

• Observations on Traditional Phytotherapy among the Inhabitants of Lahaul Valley through Amchi System of Medicine — A Cold Desert Area of Himachal Pradesh in North Western Himalayas, India written by Parveen Kumar Sharma, Surender Kumar Thakur, S. Manuja, R. K. Rana, Pardeep Kumar, Sanjay Sharma, Jagdish Chand, Ashok Singh, Krishan Kumar Katoch, published by Chinese Medicine, Vol.2 No.3, 2011
• Ashok Singh, Manohar Lal & S. S. Samant (2009) Diversity, indigenous uses and conservation prioritization of medicinal plants in Lahaul valley, proposed Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, India, International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management, 5:3, 132-154, DOI: 10.1080/17451590903230249

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

राक्लामुल raklamul

• Pandey, Manish. (2007). Use of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Tibetan Therapy System in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Our Nature. 4. 10.3126/on.v4i1.505.

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