{"id":25744,"date":"2024-08-11T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T03:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25744"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:21:37","slug":"ceropegia-shivrayiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ceropegia-shivrayiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceropegia Shivrayiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ceropegia Shivrayiana:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a flowering plant species named in a nod to <strong>Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The plant was discovered in one of his <strong>renowned forts, Vishalgad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It consists of <strong>unique, tubular flowers<\/strong>, which are specially adapted to attract moths for pollination.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> This plant <strong>thrives in rocky terrains<\/strong> and is capable of growing in less nutrient-or poor soils.<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the <strong>Asclepiadaceae family<\/strong>, which includes many medicinal plants, with significant ecological importance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> Its conservation is essential due to the ongoing threat of habitat loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about Vishalgad Fort<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an ancient fort situated at <strong>Vishalgad village<\/strong> in Kolhapur district of <strong>Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Also called Khelna or Khilna by the locals, Vishalgad Fort was one of the important forts of the Maratha Empire.<\/li>\n<li>It was built in 1058 by Shilahara king Marsinh and was initially known as Khilgil.<\/li>\n<li>The fort was under the rule of <strong>Seuna Yadavas<\/strong> of Devagiri, <strong>Allauddin Khilji<\/strong>, the <strong>Vijayanagar Empire,<\/strong> and then the <strong>Adil Shahi<\/strong> dynasty.<\/li>\n<li>In 1659, Shivaji captured the fort from Adil shah and renamed the fort &#8216;Vishalgad&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Famous structures in the fort<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The famous Dargah of Hazrat Sayed Malik Rehan Meera Saheb, which is visited by thousands of tourists, is located in the fort.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temples:<\/strong> Amruteshwar Temple, Shri Nrusinha Temple, and Sati`s Vrindavan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Gymnosperm?<\/h3>\n<p>These are any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed seed.The seeds of many gymnosperms (literally, \u201cnaked seeds\u201d) are borne in cones and are not visible until maturity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolhapur\/new-flowering-plant-species-ceropegia-shivrayiana-discovered-near-vishalgad\/articleshow\/112330305.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New flowering plant species found near Vishalgad, named after Shivaji Maharaj<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceropegia Shivrayiana is a flowering plant species named in a nod to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25744","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\/25744","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=25744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}