{"id":31258,"date":"2025-03-16T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31258"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:01:30","slug":"uniyala-keralensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uniyala-keralensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniyala Keralensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Uniyala Keralensis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers have named the new species, which is endemic to southwest India, Uniyala keralensis (family Asteraceae) after the State of Kerala.<\/p>\n<h2>About Uniyala Keralensis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Uniyala keralensis is a \u201csmall to large shrub,\u201d growing up to one to three metres in height and sporting attractive light purple florets, according to the paper.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uniyala keralensis<\/strong> has, among other things,<strong> larger leaves<\/strong>, fairly long petioles &#8211; the slender stalk that joins the leaf to the stem &#8211; and fewer lateral veins on the leaves.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Flowering and fruiting occurs during <strong>August to April.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is found in open areas of the western mountain slopes of the <strong>Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve (ABR)<\/strong> at elevations ranging between 700 to 1,400 metres.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The present population consists of nearly 5,000 individuals of various ages in four subpopulations occupying an area of 250 km2.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Following the IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN 2024), Uniyala keralensis is assessed as <strong>Data Deficient (DD).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Uniyala Keralensis\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>Where is Uniyala keralensis found?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Uniyala keralensis is found in the open areas of the western slopes of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve (ABR) at elevations of 700 to 1,400 metres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>When does Uniyala keralensis flower and fruit?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Flowering and fruiting occur between August and April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is the IUCN status of Uniyala keralensis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is classified as Data Deficient (DD) under the IUCN Red List Criteria (2024) due to limited population and data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/plant-species-first-collected-27-years-ago-identified-as-new-species-of-the-genus-uniyala\/article69333684.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniyala keralensis is a \u201csmall to large shrub,\u201d growing up to one to three metres in height and sporting attractive light purple florets, according to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31258","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\/31258","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=31258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}