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SMITH-ee-uh — named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith … Wikisource
her-SOO-tuh — hairy … Dave’s Botanary
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commonly known as: hairy smithia • Kannada: ಕೂದಲುಳ್ಳ ಹುರುಳಿ koodalulla huruli • Konkani: कवला kavla • Marathi: कवला kawla • Tamil: முடி இலைகண்ணி mudi ilaikanni
Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2024/08/smithia-hirsuta-dalzell.html
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Native of: s and n-e India  
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India (N); Andhra Pradesh ; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Manipur ; Meghalaya ; Tamil Nadu as per ILDIS;
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Kas week : Smithia hirsuta SMP:
Smithia hirsuta
Grows gregariously on the plateau.
Important characters: Herbs 30-50cm, Leaflets 6-8(2-3 pairs) Flowers bright, Pods 4-7 jointed. Joints reticulately veined.


Adding two more pictures with leaflets 8.



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Requesting to please provide ID of this Fabaceae member captured near Satara, Maharashtra in October 2014.
Is this Smithia hirsuta?

Smithia hirsuta Dalzell


whenever I see this case, the last picture reminds me of Donald Duck. well done …



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Fabaceae Fortnight: Smithia hirsuta:: Kas Plateau:: NAOCT7 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)
Photographed on 4th October 2015
also known as Hairy Smithia or Kawla (in Marathi) 

Very beautiful plant !!

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Smithia hirsuta Dalzell
at Meruling on September 21, 2014
on Kas plateau, September 24, 2015
at base of Koraigad on October 8, 2011
at Tableland, Panchagani on August 26, 2010
at Tableland, Panchagani on August 24, 2010
on Kas plateau, September 28, 2008


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Smithia hirsuta at Kas.

 

Please help me to identify this Smithia herb of Fabaceae. The habitat is a grassland of temperate climate.
Height: c.10 cm
Date: 30 Oct 2012
Location: Mukruthi NP, Nilgiris
Alt.: 2450 m asl

Must be Smithia hirsuta.
Let us wait for validating comment(s).


First 4 images are of S. hirsuta and last 2 are of S. setulosa.


 


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Fabaceae week-35:
Is Smithia in first 2 photos is different from last 2 photos?
Or only colour pattern variation?


To me it appears only slight variation in color


I too think both are same plants. Visible leaflets would have helped…


I too think they belong to the same species. By the way did you notice any major variation in leaves. If no variation in leaves they are obviously same species.
The difference may be because of the soil type and exposure to light, I guess.


I think Smithia hirsuta Dalzell as per images herein.



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Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: Smithia Sp – White:
Smithia Sp White in colour, Photo taken at Kas, Satara in Sep-07


please let us know the size of flower if you can recall.
To me it looks like freak change in colour of Smithia hirsuta.


the size of the flower is same as of our regular yellow smithia.



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which Smithia : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)

Clicked at Kas in Oct 08.
Is it Smithia setulosa or bigemina ?


Best would be to follow key in Flora of Maharashtra as it is simple provided you have calyx and leaves.
BUT if you are down to these two species and are sure that the choice is between these two ONLY – S. bigemina has 2 pairs of leaflets while S. setulosa has more (and is generally a more erect robust plant- as per my observations)

I think close to image at Smithia hirsuta Dalzell



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Nilgiris: Smithia for identification 031212MK03: Please help me to identify this small herb found on the grasslands of upper plateau of Nilgiris. What is this Fabaceae member?
Size: 7 cm
Flower: 0.8 cm across

… most probably Smithia bigemina Dalzell.


Smithia species. May not be S.bigemina. In S.b. the leaves are only two pairs as reported by … in flowersofindia.com at: http://www.flowersofindia.net/Double%Paired%Smithia.html


Could it be Smithia setulosa?


Can the attached one (from Kas, Aug’12) is same as the one posted by …?

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Hairy Smithia (Smithia hirsuta) – indiantreepix | Google Groups :
at Kaas, Satara – Maharashtra in October 2008;



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Smithia bigemina:
Common name- Double Paired Smithia
Habitat- Wild
Location- Paud road , after Pirangut.  (On road to Mulshi )
Date- 04th Sep 2011.

I posted this Double Paired Smithia  yesterday. .. from “Flowers of India” told me that it is Smithia setulosa and not Smithia bigemina. In his words ” Double Paired Smithia has 4 leaflets grouped together “.


S. bigemina is a low herb (5-10 cm) with tiny flowers and S. setulosa is a tall herb (1-1.5 m) found on hills which blooms in October. This is a small erect herb ( 10-20 cm) with flowers in short racemes. From location, season and general appearance his would be S. hirsuta.  For a specific justfication of ID from calyx and leaflets a specimen would be necessary.


Yes … may be right. S. bigemina has 4 leaflets, S. setulosa 10-12 large leaflets and flowers in panicled secund racemes. S. hirsuta has 6-10 leaflets (8 leaflets are seen in most leaves here), also plant is slender,
leaflets smaller and flowers in close secund corymbs.
Close ups of calyx are needed for further verification.



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The photo is taken from Kas plateau (Maharashtra) in the month of September.


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SMITH-ee-uh — named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith
her-SOO-tuh — hairy
Aug 26, 2010 … at Tableland, Panchagani, Maharashtra
commonly known as: hairy smithia • Marathi: कवला kavala
Native of: s and n-e India
some views: Aug 26, 2010 … at Tableland, Panchagani, Maharashtra
Aug 24, 2010 … at Tableland, Panchagani, Maharashtra

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Kas Week :: DV :: 28 SEP 08 – 1159 :: Smithia hirsuta:
Kas plateauabout 4000 ft asl
… one of the 39 World Heritage sites in the Western Ghats of India
28 SEP 08
Smithia hirsuta Dalzell(family: Fabaceae)
SMITH-ee-uh — named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith
her-SOO-tuh — hairy
Dave’s Botanary
commonly known as: hairy smithia • Marathi: कवला kavala
Native of: s and n-e India
References: Flowers of IndiaNPGS / GRINFlowers of Sahyadri by Shrikant Ingalhalikar



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KAS Week DS_031012_06 Smithia hirsuta:
This is the Micky mouse or Donald duck flower from Western Ghat, Kas. On 22nd Sep 2012.
Very funny looking flower.


Interesting looking flowers



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Kas Week: AVD: 09th Oct 2012: Smithia hirsuta:
Attached herewith are images of Smithia hirsuta.
Family : Fabaceae



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Kas Week: AVD: 12th Oct 2012 : My Final post for the episode:

This is my concluding post for Kas episode.
Attached herewith are images of Smithia hirsuta & Kas landscape.
I would like to conclude my contributions to this episode by sending a link of my article on
Smithia that was a part of my article series in Marathi.
It has been a fantastic episode. Thank you all.

Great photographs. Thanks … for sharing so many interesting plants from Kas, the Floral meadow



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Kas week:: PKA48:- Smithia hirsuta:
Smithia hirsuta (Family: Fabaceae).



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Smithia hirsuta—-for sharing and validation : Attachments (1).  1 post by 1 author.
Pic of Hairy Smithia, taken at ambyvalley rd. lonavala/mulshi, pune in oct12.



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Rajgad, Sep 2014 :: Requesting ID of this Smithia species :: ARKSEP-14: 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3).
Requesting to please ID this Smithia species captured at Rajgad near Pune in Sep 2014.

I think Smithia hirsuta


Thank you … for ID….



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via Species‎ > ‎S‎ >
Smithia hirsuta Dalzell … family: Fabaceae

Flowers of India Discussions at efloraofindia more views in flickr more views on Google Earth
SMITH-ee-uh — named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward SmithWikisource
her-SOO-tuh — hairyDave’s Botanary
commonly known as: hairy smithiaMarathi: कवला kawla
botanical names: Smithia hirsuta Dalzell … synonyms: no synonym known … NPGS / GRIN


SMITH-ee-uh — named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith … Wikisource
her-SOO-tuh — hairy … Dave’s Botanary

commonly known as: hairy smithia • Kannada: ಕೂದಲುಳ್ಳ ಹುರುಳಿ koodalulla huruli • Konkani: कवला kavla • Marathi: कवला kawla

botanical namesSmithia hirsuta Dalzell … heterotypic synonymsSmithia blanda var. humilis Prain … POWO, retrieved 30 August 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
hairy smithia
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) … spoken in: Karnataka
ಕೂದಲುಳ್ಳ ಹುರುಳಿ koodalulla huruli
  • name coined, for want of name; ಕೂದಲುಳ್ಳ koodalulla = hairy; ಹುರುಳಿ huruli = name given to horse gram … for the hairy nature of the plant, and its use 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
कवला kavla
  • name borrowed from Marathi, for want of name
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
written in: Devanagari (मराठी) … spoken in: Maharashtra, Karnataka
कवला 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
  • variant of: कौला kaula = a particular esculent vegetable | a large sort of orange | tender and fresh; young and blooming — a plant, a fruit … A dictionary, Marathi and English by Molesworth, J. T. (James Thomas)
  • variant of: कवळा kavala, and the commoner word कोवळा kovala = tender and fresh … A dictionary, Marathi and English by Molesworth, J. T. (James Thomas)
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
*Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, *Kerala, Maharashtra, *Manipur, *Meghalaya, *Tamil Nadu

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

~~~~~ Created on: 15:49 30-08-2024 ¦ Last updated: 09:35 31-08-2024 ~~~~~
Names compiled / updated at
https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2024/08/smithia-hirsuta-dalzell.html


coined Tamil name added …

commonly known as: hairy smithia • Kannada: ಕೂದಲುಳ್ಳ ಹುರುಳಿ koodalulla huruli • Konkani: कवला kavla • Marathi: कवला kawla • Tamil: முடி இலைகண்ணி mudi ilaikanni


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smithia hirsuta : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)
smithia hirsuta hopefully
would appreciate a confirmation
Kaas plateau
second week of October 2016

Thanks, …, I think matches with images at Smithia hirsutea


Smithia hirsuta to me too.


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Tamil name for Smithia hirsuta Dalzell:

I wish we give a name in Tamil to Smithia hirsuta Dalzell, the “hairy smithia“.
We have இலைகண்ணி ilaikanni, a name known for Smithia conferta Sm.
I hope adding a word prefix (meaning hairy) to இலைகண்ணி would achieve an appropriate name; please help.

I couldn’t find a specific Tamil name for “hirsute” or “hairy” when referring to plants (checked TN ENVIS Flora checklist by Dr. Narasimhan et al.). Since this is a distinguishing feature, it would be helpful to have a name with this prefix. I would suggest mudiyudaiya / mudikonda ilaikanni முடியுடைய /முடிகொண்ட இலைகண்ணி or simply mudi ilaikanni முடி இலைகண்ணி. It refers to having hair/trichome and does not specify a hair type or its location in the plant. The Tamil name mudi has multiple meanings such as knot, crown, end etc. but is commonly (mainly) used for hair.


Thank you very very much, …, for help with coining this name.
I liked the simple முடி இலைகண்ணி mudi ilaikanni … it serves our purpose very well.


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