Names of Plants in India: Symplocos macrophylla Wall. ex DC.

simp-LOK-os or simp-LAW-kaws -- from the Greek symploke (entertwined or inter-connected) ... Dave's Botanary
mak-roh-FIL-uh -- big leaf ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: large-leaf sapphire berry • Kannada: ಸಂಕಣಿ sankani • Malayalam: മലങ്കുരുവി malankuruvi • Tamil: பெரிய கம்பிளிவெட்டி periya kampilivetti

botanical names: Symplocos macrophylla Wall. ex DC. ... homotypic synonyms: Eugenioides macrophyllum (Wall. ex DC.) Kuntze • Lodhra macrophylla (Wall. ex DC.) Miers ... POWO, retrieved 16 October 2024

Bibliography / etymology

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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

large-leaf sapphire berry

for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved October 16, 2024

~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~

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

ಸಂಕಣಿ sankani

BIOTIK (Biodiversity Informatics and co-operation in Taxonomy for Interactive shared Knowledge base)
sometimes found written as ಸಂಕಾನಿ sankaani ... Alar - an authoritative Kannada-English dictionary corpus created by V. Krishna | ಪದಕಣಜ - ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಜಾಲತಾಣ ... Padakanaja - Official website of Government of Karnataka

~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~

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

മലങ്കുരുവി malankuruvi

വിക്കിപീഡിയ - സ്വതന്ത്രസർവ്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം ... Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~

written in: Tamil (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

பெரிய கம்பிளிவெட்டி periya kampilivetti

name coined, for want of name; many thanks to Dr Vijayasankar Raman for help with coining this name ... efloraofindia ... பெரிய periya = big, large - refers to comparatively larger leaves among the sibling species; கம்பிளிவெட்டி kampilivetti = name given to Symplocos acuminata (Blume) Miq.

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

Karnataka, Kerala, *Meghalaya, *Nagaland, Tamil Nadu

Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2024): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 24.10; last update October 9th, 2024. Last accessed 16/10/2024 (dd/mm/yyyy).

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

~~~~~ Created on: 12:42 16-10-2024 ¦ Last updated: 12:03 17-10-2024 ~~~~~