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Coscinium fenestratum Colebr. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Coscinium fenestratum Colebr.
Family	Menispermaceae
Identified with (Skt)	dāruharidrā, dāruniśā, dārvī
Identified with (Tam)	maramañcaḷ, mañcaḷ koṭi
Identified with (Mal)	maramaññaḷ
Identified with (Eng)	Tree turmeric, Flase calumba
Botanical info	A woody climbing shrub, growing in Western Ghats, Tamilnadu and Kerala, yellow flowers in divaricately branched inflorescence, fruits globose drupes, globose seeds, leaves simple, shiny and smooth above, minutely tomentose beneath
Search occurrence	dāruharidrā, dāruniśā, dārvī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 476) dāruharidrā, f. = -niśā, Suśr. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 476) dāruniśā, f. a species of Curcuma, Car. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 476) darvī, f. = -vi, a ladle, VS. ii, 49 (voc. -vi; cf. Pliṇ. vii, 3, 109, Yārtt. 2), Kauś. ĀśvGṛ. PārGṛ. Gobh., MBh. &c.; the hood of a snake, L.; N. of a country, vi, 362. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 3086) maramañcaḷ: Tree turmeric, s. cl., Coscinium fenestratum

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