{"id":27954,"date":"2024-11-14T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27954"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:08:55","slug":"crinum-andhricum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/crinum-andhricum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Crinum andhricum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Crinum andhricum:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species of flowering plant<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was recorded from the <strong>Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The species was <strong>named after Andhra Pradesh<\/strong> in recognition of the State where it was first found.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the <strong>Amaryllidaceae family.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the latest addition to India\u2019s Crinum species<strong>,<\/strong> bringing the total to 16, with several being endemic to India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has distinct features, including <strong>wider, oblanceolate perianth lobes<\/strong> (the outer <strong>part of the flower<\/strong>) and a <strong>greater number of flowers per cluster<\/strong>, producing between 12 and 38 flowers in each.<\/li>\n<li>The plant\u2019s <strong>pedicelled flowers<\/strong> (with a stalk-like structure) make it unique among species in the region.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>flowers<\/strong> of Crinum andhricum are <strong>waxy white<\/strong>, blooming between April and June.<\/li>\n<li>Standing on <strong>a tall stem<\/strong> that reaches up to 100 cm, the plant is <strong>well-suited to dry, rocky crevices<\/strong> in the Eastern Ghats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The leaves are large, elliptic, and have smooth, entire margins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Based on its current limited distribution and environmental threats, the researchers have given Crinum andhricum a <strong>preliminary status of \u2018Data Deficient\u2019 under the IUCN guidelines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the Eastern Ghats?<\/h3>\n<p>The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains that run in a north-south alignment more or less east of the Deccan plateau and pass through Odisha state in the north and Telangana-Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu state in the south, traversing some parts of Karnataka state, namely, Bellary, Kolar and Chamarajnagar districts. They are older than the Western Ghats, and have a complex geological history related to the assembly and breakup of the ancient supercontinent of Rodinia and the assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/andhra-pradesh\/2024\/Nov\/13\/new-species-of-flower-plant-blooms-in-dry-rocky-forests-of-alluri-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New species of flower plant blooms in dry, rocky forests of Alluri district<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crinum andhricum is a new species of flowering plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27954","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\/27954","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=27954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}