{"id":25856,"date":"2024-08-16T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25856"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:11:37","slug":"forever-chemicals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/forever-chemicals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastrodia indica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gastrodia indica:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>first orchid from India that never opens its flower<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The orchid was found at an <strong>elevation of 1,950\u20132,100 metres above sea level.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is the <strong>first cleistogamous species of the genus Gastrodia discovered<\/strong> from India.\n<ul>\n<li>The Gastrodia genus is known for <strong>terrestrial, herbaceous, and holomycotrophic orchids.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cleistogamous plants are highly specialized, as they <strong>do not depend on external pollinators like insects or wind for reproduction.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Holomycotrophic species like Gastrodia indica <strong>rely entirely on a fungal host for sustenance<\/strong>, <strong>lacking chlorophyll and drawing carbon from underground fungi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is morphologically allied to G. exilis &amp; G.dyeriana but critical examination revealed <strong>considerable differences in floral morphological characters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This new species thrives in <strong>dense, rotten leaf litter and is associated with trees<\/strong> such as Magnolia doltsopa, Acer campbelli, and Quercus lamellose.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery adds to India&#8217;s botanical diversity, bringing the <strong>total number of Gastrodia species in the country to 10.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> Gastrodia indica faces potential threats d<strong>ue to its limited population and specific habitat requirements.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Pollination?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma. The goal of every living organism, including plants, is to create offspring for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastmojo.com\/sikkim\/2024\/08\/15\/a-orchid-that-never-opens-its-flower-discovered-in-sikkim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Orchid that never opens its flower discovered in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gastrodia indica  is the first orchid from India that never opens its flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856","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=25856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}