{"id":23691,"date":"2024-05-27T03:05:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23691"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:47:21","slug":"stellaria-mcclintockiae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/stellaria-mcclintockiae\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellaria mcclintockiae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Stellaria mcclintockiae:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the new species belongs to the <strong>genus Stellaria<\/strong> (family Caryophyllaceae).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This is an <strong>annual herb<\/strong> growing up to 15 cm in height. Known to be found only in the Nelliyampathy hills as of now, and that too at an elevation of 1,250-1,400 metres.<\/li>\n<li>It differs from other species of this genus with respect to the features of its petals, pollen morphology, bracts, sepals, and seed architecture.<\/li>\n<li>This is the first species of the genus Stellaria reported from south India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The researchers have recommended that Stellaria mcclintockiae be classified as critically endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is pollen?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a powder produced by the male part of a flower that causes the female part of other flowers of the same type to produce seeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/new-plant-species-from-keralas-nelliyampathy-named-after-nobel-laureate-barbara-mcclintock\/article68218141.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New plant species from Kerala\u2019s Nelliyampathy named after Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellaria mcclintockiae  is the new species belongs to the genus Stellaria (family Caryophyllaceae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23691","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\/23691","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=23691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}