{"id":59710,"date":"2025-08-17T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59710"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:46:05","slug":"phoenix-roxburghii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/phoenix-roxburghii\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix roxburghii"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Phoenix roxburghii Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, researchers have identified a new palm species and named it as Phoenix roxburghii.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Phoenix roxburghii<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new palm species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> named <\/span><b>after William Roxburgh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, considered the father of Indian Botany.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Phoenix roxburghii\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It grows 12 to 16 metres tall.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phoenix roxburghii shares morphological <\/span><b>similarities with Phoenix sylvestris,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but differs by its taller solitary trunk, larger leaves and leaflets, musty-scented staminate flowers and larger, obovoid orange-yellow fruits,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found on India\u2019s eastern coast and Bangladesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Pakistan<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Palm Tree<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palm is a <\/span><b>member of the Arecaceae, or Palmae,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a single family of monocotyledonous flowering plants of the order Arecales.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an evergreen plant which can grow in the <\/span><b>form of shrubs, trees, or long, woody vines called lianas.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is distributed in <\/span><b>America and in Asia, from India to Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and south to Australia and the islands of the <\/span><b>Pacific and Indian oceans,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Africa and Madagascar as a third but much less important palm region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The palms with the greatest importance in world commerce are the coconut and the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis); both are prime sources of vegetable oil and fat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/revisiting-katou-indel-in-17th-century-botanical-treatise-hortus-malabaricus-yields-new-finds-for-researchers\/article69940209.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix roxburghii is a new palm species named after William Roxburgh, considered the father of Indian Botany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":59792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2229,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-59710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-phoenix-roxburghii","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\/59710","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}