{"id":125401,"date":"2026-09-21T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=125401"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:11:53","slug":"ophiopogon-japonicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ophiopogon-japonicus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophiopogon Japonicus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ophiopogon Japonicus Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, and the Uluberia Botanical Institute Herbarium recorded the Ophiopogon japonicus in the wild in Arunachal Pradesh for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ophiopogon Japonicus<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>evergreen perennial<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> herb that grows in dense clumps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Other names:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Commonly known as <\/span><b>dwarf lilyturf or mondo grass.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The genus <\/span><b>Ophiopogon comprises<\/b> <b>around 85 species worldwide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, of which seven species were previously recorded from India.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a perennial and <\/span><b>grows primarily in the subtropical biome.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has narrow, grass-like leaves with retroserrulate margin, small white to pale-purple flowers, and blue, berry-like fruits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The plant is native to <\/span><b>East Asia and is found in China, Japan, Korea and Nepal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, generally at elevations between 200 and 2,800 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Applications<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>tuberous roots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are known as <\/span><b>Ophiopogonis Radix or Maidong<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Chinese and have long been used in <\/span><b>traditional Chinese medicine.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is reported that <\/span><b>O. japonicus polysaccharides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (OJPs) have a variety of biological activities, including <\/span><b>anti-diabetes, anti-inflammatory, kidney protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hepatoprotective and immunomodulatory activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/himalayan-discovery-ophiopogon-japonicus-recorded-1st-time-in-india\/articleshow\/133717371.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophiopogon Japonicus is an evergreen perennial herb that grows in dense clumps. Read more about Ophiopogon Japonicus, Appearance, Distribution, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":125472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10397],"class_list":["post-125401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-ophiopogon-japonicus","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125498,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125401\/revisions\/125498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}