{"id":23599,"date":"2024-05-22T01:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23599"},"modified":"2025-04-07T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:09:16","slug":"emblica-chakrabartyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/emblica-chakrabartyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Emblica chakrabartyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Emblica chakrabartyi:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The species <strong>belonging to the gooseberry<\/strong> (Phyllanthaceae) family has been named after Tapas Chakrabarty, former scientist at the Botanical Survey of India, for his contribution to the study on Phyllanthaceae.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant attains a height of approximately 2 metres. The leaves are large with a shiny elongated oval shape of up to 13 cm.<\/li>\n<li>The flowering and fruiting occur during December to June. Male flowers are found in inflorescence whereas females ones are in single, on the leaf axils.<\/li>\n<li>Each flower bears yellowish green coloured six petals. The fruits are brown to black when they ripen and the seeds are black about 8-9 mm diameter.<\/li>\n<li>Generally growing as <strong>shrubs in tropical rain forests<\/strong>, 55 species of the genus Emblica have been recorded all around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The new plant is the eleventh from India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Tropical Rainforest?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a hot, humid, and flourishing dense forest, usually found around the equator. Tropical rainforests receive around 100 inches (254 centimeters) of rainfall yearly, and contain tall broad-leaved evergreen trees that form a continuous canopy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/new-plant-species-discovered-from-edamalayar-forest-range\/article68196865.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New plant species discovered from Edamalayar forest range<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emblica chakrabartyi species belonging to the gooseberry (Phyllanthaceae) family has been named after Tapas Chakrabarty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23599","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\/23599","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=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}