{"id":58844,"date":"2025-08-10T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58844"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:19:51","slug":"heptapleurum-assamicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/heptapleurum-assamicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Heptapleurum assamicum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Heptapleurum assamicum Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have recently identified a new plant species in Assam\u2019s Dima Hasao and West Karbi Anglong districts \u2014 a lush, evergreen shrub now named Heptapleurum assamicum.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Heptapleurum assamicum<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new plant species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>lush, evergreen shrub<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Heptapleurum assamicum was <\/span><b>discovered in Assam\u2019s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dima Hasao and West Karbi Anglong districts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the<\/span><b> family Araliaceae,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which also includes the familiar ornamental \u201cumbrella plant\u201d (H. arboricola).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this wild Assamese relative carries several <\/span><b>distinctive traits:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its l<\/span><b>eaflets are narrow and lance-shaped, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">never more than 1.2 cm wide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>flowers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are a <\/span><b>striking purple <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rather than the greenish-yellow of its ornamental cousin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its compact inflorescences bear up to 15 flowers per umbel.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fruit, when ripe, turns a deep reddish-purple and is speckled with orange-red glands \u2014 an unusual feature even within the genus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plant flowers between January and March, with fruits ripening by May.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its current known <\/span><b>population is tiny and highly localised,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making it potentially vulnerable to environmental changes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">For now, it has been categorised as <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">\u201cData Deficient\u201d under IUCN criteria.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eastmojo.com\/free-digest\/2025\/08\/09\/assam-umbrella-plant-new-species-discovered-in-kopili-river-basin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heptapleurum assamicum is a lush, evergreen shrub discovered in Assam\u2019s Dima Hasao and West Karbi Anglong districts. Read more about Heptapleurum assamicum, Discovery, Population, IUCN Status, News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":59039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2112,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-58844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-heptapleurum-assamicum","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}