{"id":64803,"date":"2025-09-23T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=64803"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:03:34","slug":"impatiens-selvasinghii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/impatiens-selvasinghii\/","title":{"rendered":"Impatiens Selvasinghii"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Impatiens Selvasinghii Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently found a new plant species named Impatiens selvasinghii in the Kudremukh range of the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Impatiens Selvasinghii<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new species of flowering plant.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the <\/span><b>Kudremukh range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the<\/span><b> Western Ghats in Karnataka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at an altitude of 1,630 meters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is named after an associate professor of botany at Madras Christian College.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>is one of the smallest flowered balsams from the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/difference-between-western-ghats-and-eastern-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Ghats<\/a>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Small insects are dependent on this plant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has an <\/span><b>exceptionally small flower size a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd prominently-lobed wing petals, which makes it unique.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><b> genus Impatiens<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is represented by<\/span><b> more than 280 taxa,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chiefly distributed in the <\/span><b>Eastern Himalayas and Western Ghats.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 210 taxa are endemic to India, of which <\/span><b>130 are endemic to the Western Ghats,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><b> 80% of taxa in the Western Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are categorized as <\/span><b>endangered<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/impatiens-selvasinghii-researchers-name-new-plant-species-after-mcc-faculty-member\/articleshow\/123929179.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TOI<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impatiens selvasinghii is a new species of flowering plant. 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