Names of Plants in India: Smithia bigemina Dalzell

SMITH-ee-uh -- named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith ... Wikisource
¿ bi-JEM-in-uh ? -- double paired ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: double paired smithia • Gujarati: બેરકી berki • Hindi: बेरकी berki • Kannada: ಸಣ್ಣ ಹುರುಳಿ sanna huruli • Konkani: लहान कवला lahan kavla • Malayalam: ചെറിയ മുതിര cheriya muthira • Marathi: बेरकी berki, लहान कवला lahan kawla, नायकोई पाला naaykoi pala

botanical names: Smithia bigemina Dalzell ... homotypic synonyms: Damapana bigemina (Dalzell) Kuntze ... heterotypic synonyms: Smithia agharkarii Hemadri ... POWO, retrieved 28 August 2024

Bibliography / etymology

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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

double paired smithia

for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved August 28, 2024

~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~

written in: Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: Gujarat, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu

બેરકી berki

The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay by Cooke, Theodore

~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand

बेरकी berki

The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay by Cooke, Theodore

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka

ಸಣ್ಣ ಹುರುಳಿ sanna huruli

name coined, for want of name; ಸಣ್ಣ sanna = small, of smaller size; ಹುರುಳಿ huruli = name given to horse gram ... the whole plant used by animals as forage

~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (कोंकणी), Kannada (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ), Malayalam (കൊങ്കണി), Perso-Arabic (کونکنی), Romi (Konknni) ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat

लहान कवला lahan kavla

name coined, for want of name; लहान lahan = small; कवला kavla = name given to Smithia sensitiva Aiton

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

written in: Malayalam (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: Kerala, Lakshadweep

ചെറിയ മുതിര cheriya muthira

name coined, for want of name; ചെറിയ cheriya = small, of smaller size; മുതിര muthira = name given to horse gram ... the whole plant used by animals as forage

~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka

बेरकी berki

The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay by Cooke, Theodore

लहान कवला lahan kawla

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

नायकोई पाला naaykoi pala

Maharashtra Genebank Programme - a multi-institutional project funded by Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission, Government of Maharashtra

~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~

*Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, *Odisha, Rajasthan, *Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh

Balan, Anoop & Nair, S V Predeep. (2017). A taxonomic revision of the genus Smithia Ait. (Fabaceae) in South India. Taiwania. 62. 175-204. 10.6165/tai.2017.62.175.
Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2024): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 24.8; last update August 27th, 2024. Last accessed 28/08/2024 (dd/mm/yyyy).

* no given name / no name found, in the regional language(s) of the state

~~~~~ Created on: 17:22 28-08-2024 ¦ Last updated: 15:15 31-08-2024 ~~~~~