Swertia raveendrae

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Swertia raveendrae Shahina & Nampy, Phytotaxa 195: 44 (2015);
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India (Karnataka) as per POWO;
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SWER-tee-uh — named for Emanual Sweert, Dutch botanist, artist and author … Dave’s Botanary
¿ ruh-WIN-dray ? … named in honour of Prof. K. Raveendrakumar (former Head, Department of Botany, Sri Vyasa N.S.S. College, Wadakanchery) … Phytotaxa 195(1): 44 (2015)
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commonly known as: Kanara blue swertia • Kannada: ಕಾಫಿನಾಡು ಕಿರಾತ kaaphinaadu kiraatha
Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2024/10/swertia-raveendrae-shahina-nampy.html
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Baba Budangiri Karnataka
Date: 14 NOV 2016 … Altitude: ~ 1733 – 1895 m ( 5686 – 6217 ft) asl
Swertia ¿ corymbosa ? … (family: Gentianaceae)

Dear friends,
Please validate whether Swertia corymbosa. Hopefully, can be recognized from the photos.
This plant must be same as one seen at Kemmangundi.

I think matches with images at Swertia corymbosa

Yes …, I too think it matches well, Thanks very much for your thoughts. I am going ahead to label it with this name.

This observation is of Swertia raveendrae Shahina & Nampy
Kai-Philipp Schablewski has corrected the ID at iNaturalist.
Quoting Kai-Philipp Schablewski’s comment:
“https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279320611_ A_taxonomic_revision_of_Swertia_L_Gentianaceae_in_South_India _with_one_new_species_and_seven_lectotypifications
http://www.flowersofindia.net/Raveendra%27s%20Swertia.html
Swertia raveendrae is currently known only from a single population in an unprotected area. It shows local abundance with a maximum of 35 plants in the population.”

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Names of Plants in India :: Swertia raveendrae Shahina & Nampy:
Swertia raveendrae Shahina & Nampy
SWER-tee-uh — named for Emanual Sweert, Dutch botanist, artist and author … Dave’s Botanary
¿ ruh-WIN-dray ? … named in honour of Prof. K. Raveendrakumar (former Head, Department of Botany, Sri Vyasa N.S.S. College, Wadakanchery) … Phytotaxa 195(1): 44 (2015)

commonly known as: Kanara blue swertia • Kannada: ಕಾಫಿನಾಡು ಕಿರಾತ kaaphinaadu kiraatha

botanical names: Swertia raveendrae Shahina & Nampy … synonyms: no known synonyms … POWO, retrieved 11 October 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
Kanara blue swertia
  • for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved October 11, 2024
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
written in: Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) … spoken in: Karnataka
ಕಾಫಿನಾಡು ಕಿರಾತ kaaphinaadu kiraatha
  • name coined, for want of name; ಕಾಫಿನಾಡು kaaphinaadu = another name for Chikmagalur (in Karnataka), place where this species was first discovered; ಕಿರಾತ kiraatha = a name given to Swertia chirayita (Roxb.) H.Karst.
  • ಕಾಫಿನಾಡು kaaphinaadu literally means land of coffee; this was the place where first coffee crop was grown in India
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
Karnataka; endemic
~~~~~ Created on: 18:46 11-10-2024 ¦ Last updated: 20:53 11-10-2024 ~~~~~

 

 

 

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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  Dinesh Valke’s Flickr Post  Flowers of India   iNaturalist
A taxonomic revision of Swertia L. (Gentianaceae) in South India, with one new species and seven lectotypifications– January 2015, Phytotaxa 195(1):31-52