{"id":128941,"date":"2026-10-14T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=128941"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:18:59","slug":"ceropegia-tamilnaduensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ceropegia-tamilnaduensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceropegia tamilnaduensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ceropegia tamilnaduensis Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, botanists from the Botanical Survey of India have discovered and described a new plant species, named Ceropegia tamilnaduensis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ceropegia tamilnaduensis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new plant species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered from the hill slopes of the <\/span><b>Nellai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This perennial herb was found thriving at an <\/span><b>elevation of approximately 380 meters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a stream-adjacent hill slope surrounded by evergreen forest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features <\/span><b>solitary flowers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> growing <\/span><b>directly from the leaf axils<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with drooping stems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It possesses a <\/span><b>glabrous (hairless) central corona<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a <\/span><b>pollinial corpusculum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with lateral wings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>produces unusually large seeds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> measuring up to 14 mm long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It shows close morphological similarity to <\/span><b>Ceropegia annamacharyae<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (in flower structure) and <\/span><b>Ceropegia swarupa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (in narrow leaves\/body structure).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Nellai Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the state<\/span><b> of Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It earned the title of wildlife sanctuary <\/span><b>in 2015.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Geography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It features 29 mountain peaks, <\/span><b>including Sivagiri Mala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (highest peak at 1,748 m), Totti Malai, Kalli Malai, and Aruitalai Mottai.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is sustained by the drainage network of the <\/span><b>Cauvery, Moyar, Bhavani, Vaigai, and Tamirabarani River Systems.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It Santalum album (Sandalwood), Shorea, Tectona grandis, Shola tree species, Avicennia mangroves, Strobilanthes kunthiana.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is home to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nilgiri-tahr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Nilgiri Tahr<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Bengal Tiger, Asian Elephant, Lion-tailed Macaque, Grizzled Giant Squirrel, Gaur, Sloth Bear.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/researchmatters.in\/news\/new-plant-species-discovered-n-the-nellai-wildlife-sanctuary-named-after-tamil-nadu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceropegia tamilnaduensis is a new plant species discovered from the hill slopes of the Nellai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. 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