{"id":130639,"date":"2026-10-26T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=130639"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:33:43","slug":"osbeckia-assamensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/osbeckia-assamensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Osbeckia assamensis: New Pink-Flowering Plant Found in Assam&#8217;s Manas Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Osbeckia assamensis Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently identified a new flowering plant species named Osbeckia assamensis in Assam\u2019s Manas National Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Osbeckia assamensis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of <\/span><b>flowering plant.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in<\/span> <b>grasslands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/manas-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Manas National Park<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>Assam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The area forms part of the foothills of the Himalayas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the<\/span><b> Melastomataceae family<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0 one of the ten largest families of <\/span><b>flowering plants.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>perennial shrub <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that grows between 2 and 2.5 metres tall.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It distinguished it from the closely related Osbeckia nayarii by examining its stem, leaves, flowers, and seeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new species has an <\/span><b>inflorescence bearing 30 to 35 flowers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, compared with five to 12 in O. nayarii.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>pink flowers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>large opposite leaves,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a largely <\/span><b>unbranched stem.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its flowering and fruiting season extends from September to February.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also has <\/span><b>distinctive hairs along its stem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and longer seeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its conservation status has been classified as \u2018<\/span><b>Data Deficient\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the <\/span><b>IUCN criteria. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/m.nenow.in\/article\/environment\/new-flowering-plant-species-discovered-in-assams-manas-national-park\/544024\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>NEN<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osbeckia assamensis is a new species of flowering plant discovered in Manas National Park of Assam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":130614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11169,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-130639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-osbeckia-assamensis","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130639","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130707,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130639\/revisions\/130707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}