{"id":26016,"date":"2024-08-23T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26016"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:32:19","slug":"what-is-gongronema-sasidharanii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-gongronema-sasidharanii\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gongronema sasidharanii?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gongronema Sasidharanii:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species of plant discovered in Pampadum Shola National Park<\/strong>, Idukki District, <strong>Kerala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a plant with <strong>smooth stems<\/strong> and <strong>small urn-shaped<\/strong> creamy white to purplish-green <strong>flowers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This is also the <strong>first time the genusGongronema<\/strong> is being <strong>reported from south India.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, the genus Gongronema has so far been represented by just three species found in northeast India, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key Facts about Pampadum Shola National Park:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>eastern part of the Southern Western Ghats<\/strong> in Idukki District, <strong>Kerala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Stretching over an area of around 12 sq km, the name &#8216;Pampadum Shola&#8217; literally means \u2018the forest where the snake dances\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The terrain is undulating with hillocks of varying heights. The altitudes range between 1600-2400 m.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The park experiences a <strong>misty and cloudy climate throughout the year,<\/strong> and it receives <strong>heavy rain during<\/strong> the <strong>North-East monsoon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: It houses <strong>evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests,shola grasslands,<\/strong> and <strong>semi-evergreen<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: It is host to 22 species of trees, 74 species of herbs and shrubs, and 16 species of climbers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tigers<\/strong>, <strong>leopards<\/strong>, giant <strong>gizzard squirrels<\/strong>, the rarely spotted <strong>flying squirrels,Nilgiri Tahr,<\/strong> and spotted deer.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Nilgiri marten<\/strong>, the <strong>only species of marten found in South India<\/strong>, can also be spotted here.<\/li>\n<li>Around <strong>100 species of butterflies<\/strong> have been recorded at the park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Nilgiri Tahr?<\/h3>\n<p>Nilgiri Tahr is the only Caprinae species found in the tropical mountains of southern.They are endemic to the Western Ghats and used to inhabit a large part of the Western Ghats between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They are classified as Endangered under the IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gongronema sasidharanii is a new species of plant discovered in Pampadum Shola National Park, Idukki District, Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26016","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\/26016","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=26016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}