{"id":27891,"date":"2024-11-12T01:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27891"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:40:36","slug":"dicliptera-polymorpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dicliptera-polymorpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Dicliptera Polymorpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dicliptera Polymorpha:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a distinctive species, notable for its <strong>fire-resilient, pyrophytic habit<\/strong> and its unusual dual-blooming pattern.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to its typical post-monsoon flowering, the species exhibits a <strong>second, vigorous burst of flowering <\/strong>triggered <strong>by the grassland fires<\/strong> commonly set by locals in the region.<\/li>\n<li>This species is taxonomically unique, with <strong>inflorescence units<\/strong> (cymules) that develop into spicate inflorescences.<\/li>\n<li>It is the only known Indian species with this spicate <strong>inflorescence structure<\/strong>, with its closest allied being found in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The species was named Dicliptera polymorpha to reflect its diverse morphological traits.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>thrives on<\/strong> slopes in <strong>open grasslands of the northern Western Ghats<\/strong>, an area exposed to extreme climatic conditions such as summer droughts and frequent human-induced fires. Despite these harsh conditions, the species has adapted to <strong>survive and bloom twice a year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The first flowering phase occurs from post-monsoon (early November) to March or April, while the second flowering phase in May and June is triggered by fires.<\/li>\n<li>During this second phase, the woody rootstocks produce dwarf flowering shoots, leading to a more abundant but shorter flowering period.<\/li>\n<li>The species&#8217; unique adaptation to fire and its limited habitat range in the Western Ghats highlight the need for careful management of grassland ecosystems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are bryophytes?<\/h3>\n<p>Bryophytes is the informal group name for mosses, liverworts and hornworts. They are non-vascular plants, which means they have no roots or vascular tissue, but instead absorb water and nutrients from the air through their surface (e.g., their leaves).<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2072410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists discover a new fire-resilient, dual-blooming species of Dicliptera in the Northern Western Ghats of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dicliptera Polymorpha is a distinctive species, notable for its fire-resilient, pyrophytic habit and its unusual dual-blooming pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27891","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\/27891","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=27891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}