{"id":130537,"date":"2026-10-25T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T08:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=130537"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:55:15","slug":"two-new-plant-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/two-new-plant-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Plant Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Two New Plant Species Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently identified two new plant species named Ophiorrhiza shidiensis and Ophiorrhiza pemae in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Changlang district.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ophiorrhiza shidiensis and Ophiorrhiza pemae<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>two new plant species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were discovered in <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s Changlang district.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They belong to the <\/span><b>Rubiaceae family.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rubiaceae are a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">family of<\/span><b> flowering plants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family, consisting of 611 genera with more than 13150 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ophiorrhiza shidiensis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an <\/span><b>erect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>perennial herb<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can grow up to one metre tall.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has pale green leaves on their undersides and <\/span><b>tubular flowers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that are <\/span><b>white at the base,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pale pink in the middle, and rose-pink towards the mouth.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species is <\/span><b>named after \u201cShidi\u201d, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>traditional name for Gandhigram used by the Lisu (Yobin) community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, referring to the locality where it was collected.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ophiorrhiza pemae<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is closely related to Ophiorrhiza himadrica but differs in several morphological characteristics, including its taller growth, larger leaves, distinctive leaf margins, and <\/span><b>light pink to purplish flowers. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatodayne.in\/arunachal-pradesh\/story\/two-new-plant-species-discovered-in-arunachals-changlang-district-1466661-2026-10-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>IT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two New Plant Species named Ophiorrhiza shidiensis and Ophiorrhiza pemae were recently discovered in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Changlang district. 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