ses-OO-vee-um -- from the area inhabited by the Sesuvii, a Gallic tribe ... Dave's Botanary
port-yoo-luh-KAS-trum -- resembles Portulaca ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: sea purslane, shore purslane • Bengali: জাদু পালং jadu palang • Gujarati: મંજાર manjaar • Kachchhi: ખારીયુ khariyu • Konkani: धाप dhap • Malayalam: സാമ്പാർ ചീര saambar cheera • Marathi: धापा dhapa • Odia: goda bani • Rajasthani: लूणीयो lunio • Tamil: கடல் வழுக்கைக்கீரை katal valukkaikkirai, பவளவங்காரவாச்சி pavala-vankaara-vaacci • Telugu: వంగరేడు కూర vangaredu koora, వంగరేసి కూర vangaressi koora
botanical names: Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. ... homotypic synonyms: Halimus portulacastrum (L.) Kuntze • Portulaca portulacastrum L. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 13 October 2025
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
sea purslane, shore purslane
- Flowers of India, retrieved October 13, 2025
~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~
written in: Bengali (বাংলা) ... spoken in: West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
জাদু পালং jadu palang
~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~
written in: Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) ... spoken in: Gujarat, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu
મંજાર manjaar
- સૃષ્ટિ (અંક-૨૮, સપ્ટેમ્બર ૨૦૦૦, ચેર વિશેષાંક) publication by Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation
- ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ - મૅન્ગ્રોવ - બળદેવભાઈ પટેલ
~~~~~ KACHCHHI ~~~~~
written in: Gujarati (કચ્છી), Sindhi (ڪڇّي) ... spoken in: Kutch region of Gujarat
ખારીયુ khariyu
- Patel, Yatin & Patel, Rohitkumar & Pankaj, Joshi & Dabgar, Yogesh. (2011). Study of the Angiospermic flora of Kachchh district, Gujarat, India. Life Sciences Leaflets. 19. 739-768.
~~~~~ KONKANI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (कोंकणी) / Kannada (ಕೊಂಕಣಿ) / Malayalam (കൊങ്കണി) / Perso-Arabic (کونکنی) / Romi (Konknni) ... spoken in: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat
धाप dhap
- Enumeration of plants from Gomantak India with a note on botanical excursions to the Castlerock area by V D Vartak
- Dalgado, Daniel Gelanio. Flora de Goa e Savantvadi: catalogo methodico das plantas medicinaes, alimentares e industriaes. Portugal, Imprensa Nacional, 1898.
~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~
written in: Malayalam (മലയാളം) ... spoken in: Kerala, Lakshadweep
സാമ്പാർ ചീര saambar cheera
- Sahadevan P, Dinesan Cheruvat, Suma CC "On mangroves and mangrove associates of Puthuvypin of Ernakulam district of Kerala (South India)". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Volume 4, Issue 3,2017, Pages 134-139
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (मराठी) ... spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka
धापा dhapa
- The Useful Plants of India, Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR
- Common Indian Wild Flowers by Isaac Kehimkar
- धापा dhapa = a kind of grass, also spelt as ढापा dhapa ... A dictionary, Marathi and English by Molesworth, J. T. (James Thomas)
~~~~~ ODIA ~~~~~
written in: Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) ... spoken in: Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
goda bani
- Prasanna Kumar NAYAK, Raj Kishore MOHANTA, Ananta Kumar SAHU, Kedar Kumar SWAIN - Mangroves of Mahanadi Delta in the state of Odisha and aspects of their conservation - International Journal of Conservation Science, Volume 7, Issue 4, October-December 2016: 1095-1104
- the name needs to be rendered in native script
~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (राजस्थानी) ... spoken in: Rajasthan
लूणीयो lunio
- for want of name, generic regional name of Sesuvium given to this species
- Rashmi Vyas, Suman C. Sharma - Study of Phytodiversity of Sikar District of Rajasthan - Shrinkhala: Vol II, Issue II, October 2014
- Surbhi Agarwal, Dilip Gena and Jehangeer Rehman Quereishi, 2017. "Check list of the vascular plants of Nasirabad tehsil, Ajmer district" International Journal of Current Research, 9, (12), 62265-62271
- Abhishek Joshi, Bhanupriya Kanthaliya, Jaya Arora - Halophytes of Thar Desert: Potential source of nutrition and feedstuff - International Journal of Bioassays 8.1 (2018) pp. 5674-5683
~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~
written in: Tamil (தமிழ்) ... spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
கடல் வழுக்கைக்கீரை katal valukkaikkirai
- விக்கிப்பீடியா - கட்டற்ற கலைக் களஞ்சியம்... Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
பவளவங்காரவாச்சி pavala-vankaara-vaacci
- Tamil lexicon [Madras], University of Madras
~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
written in: Telugu ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry
వంగరేడు కూర vangaredu koora
- for Crithmus indicus Rumph. ... A Telugu-English dictionary by Charles Philip Brown
- Crithmus indicus Rumph. listed as synonym of Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. ... Giesen, Wim & Wulffraat, Stephan & Zieren, M. & Scholten, L.. (2006). Mangrove Guidebook for Southeast Asia. Bangkok: Rap Publication. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office For Asia and The Pacific.
వంగరేసి కూర vangaressi koora
- Flora Andhrika - Plant Wealth of Andhra Pradesh, India
- FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Andhra Pradesh, Daman, Goa, Gujarat, *Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep islands, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, West Bengal
- Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2025): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 25.10; last update Oct. 12th, 2025. Last accessed 13/10/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy).
- Gujarat :: Checklist of Gujarat Flora
- West Bengal :: BENGAL PLANTS VOL. I by PRAIN, DAVID
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Created on: 15:18 13-10-2025 ¦ Last updated: 21:19 15-10-2025 (DD-MM-YYYY)
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