{"id":61831,"date":"2025-09-03T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61831"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:26:10","slug":"gastrochilus-pechei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gastrochilus-pechei\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastrochilus Pechei"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Gastrochilus pechei<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, researchers discovered a new orchid plant in Vijoynagar, Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Gastrochilus pechei<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new orchid plant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> belonging to the <\/span><b>Gastrochilus\u00a0 genus.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It <\/span><b>flowers in September-October<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and thrives in moist, <\/span><b>evergreen rainforest on small trees near riverbanks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gastrochilus pechei was known to <\/span><b>bloom only in Myanmar.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the Vijoynagar find, <\/span><b>22 species of the Gastrochilus genus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had been recorded from India. Of these, 15 are from Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/districts-in-arunachal-pradesh\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Arunachal Pradesh<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is often referred to as the <\/span><b>Orchid State of India,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> boasts approximately 60% of the country\u2019s varieties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First <\/span><b>recorded in 1825, Gastrochilus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a monopodial orchid genus comprising 77 species widely distributed in tropical, subtropical, and temperate Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This genus is <\/span><b>characterised by a short axillary inflorescence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, often with brightly coloured flowers, a <\/span><b>distinct epichile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>front of the saccate hypochile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and two porate, globose pollinia that are borne on a slender stipe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/new-orchid-recorded-in-arunachal-pradesh\/article70000434.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gastrochilus pechei is a new orchid plant belonging to the Gastrochilus  genus. 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