Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. “Dear Telugu-knowing friends, *please validate the name put in native script for chinna mogakur -- చిన్న మొగకూర * Another query -- *is this plant endemic to southern peninsula of India* -- restricted distribution in Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa AND Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh ? ”
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> Date: 18 August 2011 21:19 Subject: [efloraofindia:77556] Names of Plants in India :: Torenia indica To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> via Species <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species> > T <https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/t> > *Torenia indica* Saldanha [image: Torenia indica Sald.]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/6049041125/> [image: Flowers of India]<http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Indian%20Wishbone%20Flower.html>[image: Discussions at efloraofindia]<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21searchin/indiantreepix/Torenia%20indica>[image: more views in flickr]<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Toreniaindica&m=tags&z=m>[image: more views on Google Earth]<http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/india/&tags=Toreniaindica&format=kml_nl> *tor-EN-ee-uh* -- named for Rev. Olof Toren, 18th century Swedish chaplain *IN-dih-kuh* or *in-DEE-kuh* -- of or from India *commonly known as*: Indian wishbone flower<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/indian-wishbone-flower> • *Marathi*: तोरणी torani<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/torani-torani> • *Telugu*: చిన్న<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/cinna-mogakura-chinna-mogakur> ¿ మొగకూర<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/cinna-mogakura-chinna-mogakur> ? chinna mogakur<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/telugu/cinna-mogakura-chinna-mogakur> *botanical names*: *Torenia indica* Sald. ... *synonyms*: no synonyms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Plant in photo: at Naneghat, 1330 ft asl, 15 AUG 11 Dear Telugu-knowing friends, please validate the name put in native script for *chinna mogakur* -- చిన్న మొగకూర Another query -- is this plant endemic to southern peninsula of India -- restricted distribution in Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa AND Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh ? Regards. Dinesh -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1740 members & 90,000 messages on 31/10/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.