Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Thunbergia coccinea Wall. ex D.Don

Thunbergia coccinea Wall. ex D.Don

thun-BER-jee-uh -- named after Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist ... Dave's BotanaryWikipedia
kok-SIN-ee-uh -- scarlet ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: scarlet clock vine • Adi: bising kiring, pakrega • Assamese: চুঙা লতা chung lota • Dogri: लाल गदा बेल laal gada bel, सूही बुर्ज़ बेल soohee burz bel • Hindi: लाल घड़ी लता laal ghadee lata • Kannada: ಇಂದ್ರಪುಷ್ಪ indrapushpa • Karbi: long-long • Mizo: fa-hrah-hrui • Nepali: कान्से kaanse, रातो काग चुच्चे rato kag chuchche, सिंगार्ने लहरा singarne lahara


botanical names: Thunbergia coccinea Wall. ex D.Don ... homotypic synonyms: Hexacentris coccinea (Wall.) Nees ... heterotypic synonyms: Flemingia coccinea Buch.-Ham. ex Nees ... more at POWO, retrieved 04 November 2024
Bibliography / etymology
Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken sensu amplo.
~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
written and spoken widely, in most parts of India
scarlet clock vine
~~~~~ ADI ~~~~~
written in: Latin ... spoken in: Arunachal Pradesh
bising kiring, pakrega
~~~~~ AHOM ~~~~~
written in: Ahom ... mainly used by priests and scholars for religious and educational purposes; spoken in: erstwhile Ahom kingdom (some part in present day Assam) ... other names for this language: Tai-Ahom
nilkantha
  • Ethnobotanyofnortheastindia (2020 onwards). Database of names of useful plants of north-east India - developed by the members of ethnobotanyofnortheastindia Google-site ... Accessed on 04 November 2024
  • nilkantha = blue-throated; refers to the colour of the flower tube which in fact is red to orange; this name is in all probability erroneously listed in the source article / publication; therefore refraining from compiling this name
~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~
written in: Assamese (অসমীয়া) ... spoken in: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya
চুঙা লতা chung lota
  • Many thanks to Monoj Nath for help with this name ... facebook
  • Flora of Assam Vol III by U N Kanjilal, P C Kanjilal, A Das, R N De
~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (डोगरी) ... spoken in: Jammu & Kashmir ... spoken by the Dogras
लाल गदा बेल laal gada bel, सूही बुर्ज़ बेल soohee burz bel
  • Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for coining these names ... facebook
~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (हिन्दी) ... spoken in: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand
लाल घड़ी लता laal ghadee lata
  • Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for coining this name ... facebook
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) ... spoken in: Karnataka
ಇಂದ್ರಪುಷ್ಪ indrapushpa
~~~~~ KARBI ~~~~~
written in: Roman ... spoken in: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland ... other names for this language: Mikir or Arleng
long-long
~~~~~ MIZO ~~~~~
written in: Latin, Bengali-Assamese ... spoken in: Mizoram ... other names for this language: Lushai, Duhlian
fa-hrah-hrui
~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (नेपाली) ... spoken in: Nepal, West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim
कान्से kaanse, रातो काग चुच्चे rato kag chuchche, सिंगार्ने लहरा singarne lahara
  • Many thanks to Saroj Kumar Kasaju for help with these names ... efloraofindia
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Uttarakhand, West Bengal; elsewhere found cultivated in India as ornamental
~~~~~ Created on: 20:03 04-11-2024 ¦ Last updated: 09:43 06-11-2024 ~~~~~
Acanthaceae "wild woody" "herbaceous ornamental" vine "Thunbergia coccinea" "Hexacentris coccinea" "Flemingia coccinea" "scarlet clock vine"

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