{"id":13527,"date":"2023-07-29T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T03:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:36:41","slug":"pedicularis-revealiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pedicularis-revealiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedicularis Revealiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pedicularis Revealiana:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is unique among all <strong>Pedicularis species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is stout and woody stems, bears minute flowers of pinkish-purple colour.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>hemiparasitic plant species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Along with making its own food, it has the <strong>ability to gather nutrients<\/strong> from the roots of trees and plants located nearby.<\/li>\n<li>This new flora is found in remote forests, which are covered with snow for most of the year.<\/li>\n<li>This genus includes about 677 species worldwide, of which 82 species, 13 subspecies and nine varieties have been reported so far in India.<\/li>\n<li>Pendicularis revealiana is the 83rd species reported by the botanists and the plant is commonly known <strong>as a perennial herb.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key Facts about Botanical Survey of India<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the apex taxonomic research organization of the country which is under the <strong>Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change, Government of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was established on 13thFebruary 1890 under the <strong>direction of Sir George King.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mandate of the organization has been broaden to <strong>biosystematics research,<\/strong> <strong>floristic studies, documentation, databasing<\/strong> of National Botanical collection, digitization of herbarium specimens etc.<\/li>\n<li>Headquarter: Kolkata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Hemiparasitic plant?<\/h3>\n<p>Hemiparasitic plants, also known as partial or semi-parasitic plants, are a unique group of plants that exhibit a form of parasitism, but they are not fully dependent on their host for survival and these plants are capable of photosynthesis to some extent, producing their food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/allahabad\/bsip-scientists-discover-new-species-of-flower-from-sikkim\/articleshow\/102186818.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>BSIP scientists discover new species of flower from Sikkim<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedicularis Revealiana has stout and woody stems, and bears minute flowers of pinkish-purple colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}