{"id":23495,"date":"2024-05-19T01:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23495"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:25:29","slug":"what-is-phtheirospermum-lushaiorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-phtheirospermum-lushaiorum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Phtheirospermum lushaiorum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Phtheirospermum lushaiorum<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species<\/strong> of <strong>hemi-parasitic terrestrial plant<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>These hemi-parasitic plants lack fully<strong> developed root system<\/strong> and <strong>form connections with another plant<\/strong>, from which they obtain some or all of their water<strong> and minerals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Such plants <strong>have chlorophyll<\/strong> and <strong>produce their own food by photosynthesis<\/strong>, and in <strong>some cases,<\/strong> are <strong>capable of limited growth in<\/strong> the <strong>absence of the host plant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>tap into<\/strong> the sap-conducting <strong>tissue of the host by<\/strong> means of <strong>specialized structures called haustoria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>new species<\/strong> has been <strong>found in Phawngpui National Park of Mizoram<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Phtheirospermum lushaiorum <strong>attaches themselves to<\/strong> the <strong>roots of their host<\/strong> and <strong>appear like normal plants <\/strong>growing in the soil.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They flower only during July to September and fruits are produced during August to October.<\/li>\n<li>The specific epithet \u201c<strong>lushaiorum\u201d<\/strong> is <strong>named after the \u201cLushai\u201d tribe of Mizoram.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key Facts about Phawngpui National Park<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Lawngtlai district under the Lai Autonomous District Council of <strong>Mizoram<\/strong>, <strong>towards<\/strong> the <strong>southeast bordering Myanmar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It derives its name from the <strong>Phawngpui Mountain<\/strong>, the <strong>highest peak in the state<\/strong>, reaching 2157 meters.<\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 50 sq. km, including the <strong>entire Phawngpui Mountain along<\/strong> with <strong>cliffs<\/strong> and <strong>patches of natural grasslands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This park is <strong>also called Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park,as<\/strong> the mountainous region of Phawngpui is <strong>often covered by<\/strong> a <strong>thin layer of clouds,<\/strong>which makes it blue in appearance from a distance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: The flora of Phawngpui mostly includes <strong>grasses, orchids,<\/strong> trees of <strong>rhododendrons,<\/strong> and <strong>oak<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna: <\/strong>It is home to an amazing variety of birdlife, including the rare <strong>Blyth\u2019s Tragopan<\/strong>, <strong>Dark Rumped Swift,<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. Hume\u2019s Pheasant, the Mizoram state bird<\/strong>, and endangered mammals like the <strong>Slow Loris, Tiger, Leopard,<\/strong> Leopard Cat, Serow, Goral, Asiatic Black Bear, Stump-tailed Macaque, and Capped Langur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Chlorophyll?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their color. It helps plants to absorb energy from the sun as they undergo the process of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastmojo.com\/mizoram\/2024\/05\/18\/new-hemiparasite-plant-species-named-after-lushai-tribe-of-mizoram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>New hemiparasite plant species named after Lushai tribe of Mizoram<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phtheirospermum lushaiorum  is a new species of hemi-parasitic terrestrial plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23495","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\/23495","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=23495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}