{"id":16534,"date":"2023-10-31T04:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:35:28","slug":"candolleomyces-albosquamosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/candolleomyces-albosquamosus\/","title":{"rendered":"Candolleomyces albosquamosus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Candolleomyces albosquamosus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the new species belonging to the\u00a0genus Candolleomyces which is relatively small genus with just 35 species recognised worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0has white woolly scale-like structures on its pileus or cap.<\/li>\n<li>It grows to a height of just about 58 mm.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018cap,\u2019 or pileus, of a mature Candolleomyces albosquamosus is 12 mm to 38.5 mm in diameter and bell-shaped.<\/li>\n<li>The honey-yellow coloured pileus\u00a0turns brownish-gray or brownish-beige with age.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018stipe\u2019(the stem or stalk) of the mushroom is white in colour and cylindrical.<\/li>\n<li>Habitats of Candolleomyces albosquamosus include\u00a0dead logs or bamboo culms in the natural forest.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are mushrooms?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mushrooms constitute\u00a0secondary saprophytic fungi of the forest ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>Secondary saprophytic fungi play a very important role in the decomposition of plant litter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Western Ghats region in Kerala is rich in fungi, many of which could also be described as endemic to the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are saprophytes?<\/h3>\n<p>These are a group of fungi that obtain their nutrition by decomposing dead organic matter. These fungi play a crucial role in ecosystems by breaking down and recycling organic material, such as dead plants, fallen leaves, and wood, into simpler substances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/researchers-identify-a-new-mushroom-species-from-the-western-ghats\/article67473466.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers identify a new mushroom species from the Western Ghats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candolleomyces albosquamosus is the new species belonging to the genus Candolleomyces which is a relatively small genus with just 35 species recognised worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16534","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\/16534","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=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}