Hypericum mysurense Wall. ex Wight & Arn.

hy-PER-ee-kum -- Greek: hyper (above), eikon (picture) ... Dave's Botanary
my-sor-EN-see -- of or from the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, during British rule in India ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: Mysore hypericum, Mysore St John's wort • Kannada: ಚಿನ್ನದಾವರೆ chinnadaavare, ಓನಾಯಿ onaayi • Malayalam: അവരം കോല avaram-kola • Marathi: हायपेरी hayperi • Tamil: ஆவாரன் avaran


botanical names: Hypericum mysurense Wall. ex Wight & Arn. ... homotypic synonyms: Norysca mysurensis (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Wight ... heterotypic synonyms: Hypericum norysca Steud. • Norysca myrtifolia Spach ... POWO

Bibliography / etymology

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

Mysore hypericum, Mysore St John's wort

• Flowers of India

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

ಚಿನ್ನದಾವರೆ chinnadaavare

• Mandayam Digital Library - Latin and Kannada names of indigenous and medicinal plants of Mysore by S G Narsimhachar
• Catalogue of Plants in the Botanical Garden, Bangalore, and its vicinity by Cameron, John, F. L. S
• Karnataka Biodiversity Board, 2019. FLORA OF KARNATAKA, A Checklist, Volume – 2: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. 1 - 1002 (Published by Karnataka Biodiversity Board)
• Many thanks to Pushpalatha Mudalamane for help with meaning of this name ... facebook ... ಚಿನ್ನದಾವರೆ chinnadavare = golden lotus

ಓನಾಯಿ onaayi

• Mandayam Digital Library - Latin and Kannada names of indigenous and medicinal plants of Mysore by S G Narsimhachar

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

അവരം കോല avaram-kola

• Many thanks to VC Balakrishnan for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

हायपेरी hayperi

• name coined, for want of name, by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author of Further Flowers of Sahyadri, the second among the three field guides to identify plants of northern Western Ghats of India, based on flowers

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

ஆவாரன் avaran

• Tamil names of Botanical names by Yercaud Ilango

~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~

no given name / no name found

• Paradesi Anjaneyulu, N. Chandra Mohan Reddy, S.M. Nagesh and Boyina Ravi Prasad Rao, 2021. Wild Ornamental Angiosperms of Andhra Pradesh, India. Bioscience Discovery, 12(3):142-170
• FLORA OF INDIA, VOL. 3, Botanical Survey of India

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Hypericaceae shrub Hypericum Norysca "Hypericum mysurense" "Norysca mysurensis" "Hypericum norysca" "Norysca myrtifolia" "Mysore hypericum" "Mysore St John's wort"