{"id":29364,"date":"2025-01-12T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29364"},"modified":"2025-04-09T02:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:01:35","slug":"utricularia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/utricularia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Utricularia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Utricularia:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Utricularia (bladderwort) is a <strong>genus of carnivorous plants<\/strong> in the family Lentibulariaceae.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, 220 listed species occupying temperate and tropical<strong> habitats throughout the world;<\/strong> it is the <strong>most diverse and widespread genus of carnivorous plants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>characterized by small hollow sacs<\/strong> that <strong>actively capture and digest tiny animals<\/strong> such as insect larvae, aquatic worms, and water fleas.<\/li>\n<li>Bladderworts can be <strong>found in lakes, streams, and waterlogged soils<\/strong> around the world, and <strong>several are invasive species<\/strong> that have spread to novel habitats.<\/li>\n<li>Bladderwort plants <strong>lack roots<\/strong> and <strong>usually have a horizontal floating stem<\/strong> bearing simple or divided leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Small carnivorous <strong>bladders are produced along the stem <\/strong>can range from dark to transparent in color.<\/li>\n<li>Bladderworts <strong>trap small organisms in their tiny bladders,<\/strong> which <strong>have a trap door<\/strong> that is <strong>triggered by hairs on the door<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>When prey comes in contact with the hairs, the door opens in a millisecond, sucking the animal in and closing in about 2.5 milliseconds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are bisexual and bilaterally symmetrical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Keoladeo National Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Keoladeo National Park, <strong>formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is located in the eastern<\/strong> part of Rajasthan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Declared a national park in 1981, it was <strong>renamed Keoladeo for the ancient temple<\/strong> in the park dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is strategically located in the <strong>middle of the Central Asian migratory flyway.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is spread across 2,873 hectares of woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, and woodland swamps.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: The vegetation here is of a <strong>dry deciduous type, w<\/strong>ith medium-sized trees and shrubs found inside its forest.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: Some of the trees which can be commonly spotted inside the park are <strong>kadam, jamun, babul, kandi, ber,<\/strong> kair, and piloo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Keoladeo is home to more than <strong>360 species of permanent and migratory birds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>During the <strong>annual period of migratory visitors<\/strong> (about October to March), birds from throughout the world can be found in the park.<\/li>\n<li>Among those wintering in the park are <strong>waterfowl<\/strong> from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China, and Siberia, including species such as <strong>gadwalls, shovellers<\/strong>, common teals, tufted ducks, <strong>pintails<\/strong>, <strong>white spoonbills<\/strong>, Asian open-billed storks, Oriental ibises, and the <strong>rare (possibly extinct) Siberian crane.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The park is also home to a range of mammals and reptiles\u2014including pythons and other snakes, deer, sambars, blackbucks, jackals, monitor lizards, and fishing cats\u2014as well as some 50 species of fish and 25 species of butterflies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>Ramsar site and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What are the benefits of Utricularia?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The dried leaves are used to make medicinal tea. People take bladderwort for treating urinary tract disorders including kidney stones and urinary tract infections (UTIs). They also take it to treat spasms, fluid retention, and swelling; to stimulate gallbladder secretions; and to promote weight loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etvbharat.com\/en\/!state\/rare-carnivorous-plant-utricularia-grows-in-keoladeo-national-park-boosts-biodiversity-enn25011102049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ETV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utricularia (bladderwort) is a genus of carnivorous plants in the family Lentibulariaceae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29364","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\/29364","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=29364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}