{"id":18521,"date":"2023-12-23T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:56:34","slug":"fimbristylis-jaleeliana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fimbristylis-jaleeliana\/","title":{"rendered":"Fimbristylis jaleeliana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Fimbristylis jaleeliana<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a family of\u00a0graminoid (grass-like) monocotyledonous flowering plants, from the lateritic hillocks of Kannur district.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0thrives in lateritic grasslands at an elevation of 60 metres above sea level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The genus Fimbristylis was one of the largest genera within the family Cyperaceae, represented by 320 species distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.<\/li>\n<li>In India, the genus was represented by 124 species, of which 97 were found in the\u00a0Western Ghats and west coast.<\/li>\n<li>Threats:\u00a0Its existence is under threat due to\u00a0habitat destruction caused by mining activities, posing a risk to its already fragmented populations on the lateritic plateau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are Cyperaceae?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It belongs to sedge family of\u00a0monocotyledonous flowering plants.<\/li>\n<li>The Cyperaceae are grasslike herbaceous plants found\u00a0especially in wet regions throughout the world.<\/li>\n<li>The members are distributed throughout all the continents except Antarctica.<\/li>\n<li>Although there is a large number of species in Arctic, temperate, and tropical regions, the diversity of genera is far greater in tropical regions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Laterite soil?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a soil layer that is rich in iron oxide and derived from a wide variety of rocks weathering under strongly oxidizing and leaching conditions. It forms in tropical and subtropical regions where the climate is humid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/fimbristylis-jaleeliana-new-species-of-cyperaceae-discovered-in-kannur\/article67666041.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Fimbristylis jaleeliana, new species of Cyperaceae discovered in Kannur<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fimbristylis jaleeliana is a family of graminoid (grass-like) monocotyledonous flowering plants, from the lateritic hillocks of Kannur district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18521","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\/18521","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=18521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}