{"id":16895,"date":"2023-11-10T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16895"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:16:20","slug":"mycena-chlorophos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mycena-chlorophos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mycena chlorophos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mycena chlorophos<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7 It is a\u00a0bioluminescent fungus primarily found in subtropical Asia.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 It is characterized by a pristine white disc with a shallow depression in the centre and emits a bright, greenish light in the dark<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Mycena species have bell-shaped caps and thin stems.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 There are around 103 species of bioluminescent fungi in the world, of which seven are found in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Bioluminescence?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7 It is the ability of living organisms to emit light.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 It\u00a0occurs due to a biochemical reaction between luciferins, oxygen and the enzyme luciferase.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 The benefit of bioluminescence in fungi is to attract insects for\u00a0facilitating their spore dispersal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7 It is located in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 It is situated near the southernmost tip of India at the confluence point of three major water bodies namely; Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Seven rivers have their\u00a0origin in this forest including the famous\u00a0Pahrali and Thamirabarani rivers.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Vegetation: This region represents southern thorn forests, dry deciduous, moist deciduous, semi evergreen forests and ever green hill sholas with grassy downs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Fauna: It is home to Indian Bison, Elephant, Nilgiri Tahr, Sambar Deer, Lion-tailed Macaque and also reptiles such as Indian Rock Python.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Mushrooms?<\/h3>\n<p>These are fascinating organisms with a wide range of ecological, culinary, and medicinal importance. They are fungi that belong to the kingdom Fungi. They are a diverse group of organisms with various shapes, sizes, colors, and ecological roles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2023\/nov\/10\/rare-bioluminescent-mushroom-spotted-in-kanyakumari-wildlife-sanctuary-2631608.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rare bioluminescent mushroom spotted in Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycena chlorophos is a bioluminescent fungus primarily found in subtropical Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16895","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\/16895","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=16895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}