{"id":27416,"date":"2024-10-21T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27416"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:27:51","slug":"coelogyne-tripurensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coelogyne-tripurensis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Coelogyne tripurensis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Coelogyne tripurensis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>new species of orchid<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was discovered from the moist broadleaf forests of\u00a0<strong>Jampui Hills in Tripura<\/strong>, situated at the\u00a0<strong>westernmost fringe of Indo-Myanmar Biodiversity Hotspot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<strong>genus<\/strong>, consisting of around 600 species, is\u00a0<strong>native to the Indian subcontinent<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Southeast Asia<\/strong>, and the\u00a0<strong>Southwest Pacific Islands<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The genus consists of\u00a0<strong>mostly epiphytic<\/strong>\u00a0(rarely lithophytic and terrestrial) taxa and is widely popular among horticulturists for its\u00a0<strong>high ornamental value\u00a0<\/strong>and easy growth requirements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The section of Coelogyne to which the\u00a0<strong>new species<\/strong>\u00a0belongs, Fuliginosae, is characterised by\u00a0<strong>unique features<\/strong>\u00a0such as\u00a0<strong>showy flowers,<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>distinctive labellum<\/strong>, and keels.<\/li>\n<li>Species belonging to\u00a0<strong>this group show<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>high degree of phenotypic plasticity<\/strong>, rendering them challenging to delineate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are epiphytic plants?<\/h3>\n<p>Epiphytic plants\u00a0are plants that grow on a host, but takes no water or nutrients from the host. They rely on specialized plant structures that absorb water and nutrients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatodayne.in\/tripura\/story\/tripura-new-orchid-species-coelogyne-tripurensis-discovered-in-jampui-hills-1108108-2024-10-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tripura: New orchid species &#8216;Coelogyne tripurensis&#8217; discovered in Jampui Hills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coelogyne tripurensis is a new species of orchid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27416","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\/27416","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=27416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}