{"id":1861,"date":"2025-01-02T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:37:30","slug":"stellaria-bengalensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/stellaria-bengalensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellaria Bengalensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Stellaria Bengalensis:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>annual herb plant<\/strong> of the genus Stellaria (family Caryophyllaceae).<\/li>\n<li>It was found growing on <strong>muddy soil slopes \u2014 at altitudes of 2,245-2,450 metres<\/strong> in the Sangser forest, Kalimpong.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual herb growing to a height of 8 to 10.5 cm, characterised by <strong>white flowers, absence of bracts, <\/strong>shorter petals (or included within the sepal),and\u00a0 sharp and pointed seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Flowering and fruiting occur from May to September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India has around 22 Stellaria species, <strong>mostly distributed in the Himalayan region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The researchers have, for the time being, assessed the new species as <strong>\u2018data deficient\u2019<\/strong> under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Other species, Stellaria mcclintockiae, of the same genus, was found on the Elliyampathy Hills of Kerala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is IUCN?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature is a global organization composed of governments, NGOs, scientists, and experts dedicated to conserving nature and promoting sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/researchers-identify-another-species-of-the-genus-stellaria-in-west-bengal\/article69043566.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong discovered a new plant species and named it Stellaria bengalensis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,22,115,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-1861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-stellaria-bengalensis","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-articles","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}