{"id":15983,"date":"2023-10-18T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:04:23","slug":"curcuma-kakchingense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/curcuma-kakchingense\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Curcuma kakchingense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Curcuma kakchingense:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new flowering plant species\u00a0discovered in\u00a0Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0member of the angiospermic family Zingiberaceae, which\u00a0includes well-known plants like\u00a0Curcuma (turmeric), gingers, and cardamom.<\/li>\n<li>It is a robust plant, as\u00a0tall as eight feet, having\u00a0large terminal inflorescence.<\/li>\n<li>It was found thriving along the\u00a0banks of the Sekmai River in the Kakching District of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>It bears a striking resemblance to Curcuma longa,\u00a0known locally as &#8220;Yaingung,&#8221; and Curcuma phrayawan, a species from Thailand, but is\u00a0distinguished by having\u00a0lemon-yellow rhizomes\u00a0with a\u00a0very bitter taste.<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0classified as &#8220;Data Deficient&#8221; (DD)\u00a0under the IUCN Red List category.<\/li>\n<li>Importance of Curcuma plants:\n<ul>\n<li>Several Curcuma species, including the turmeric (Curcuma longa are important for their\u00a0use in cuisines, traditional medicines, spices, dyes,\u00a0perfumes,\u00a0cosmetics, and as ornamental plants.<\/li>\n<li>Curcumin\u00a0and several\u00a0curcuminoids found in curcuma species\u00a0are nontoxic polyphenolic compounds that\u00a0have\u00a0biological activities.<\/li>\n<li>The essential oil of curcuma species possesses a wide variety of\u00a0pharmacological properties, including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancerous, anti-diabetic, anti-hepatotoxic, anti-diarrheal, carminative, diuretic, anti-rheumatic, hypotensive, anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, anti-viral, insecticidal, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is terminal inflorescence?<\/h3>\n<p>A terminal inflorescence is a type of flower arrangement in plants where the flowers are clustered at the tip or apex (end) of a stem or branch. This means that the flowers are located at the very top of the plant, and they often form a dense cluster or group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/new-flowering-plant-species-discovered-in-manipur-101697542544840.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New flowering plant species discovered in Manipur<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curcuma kakchingense is a new flowering plant species discovered in Manipur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15983","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\/15983","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=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}