{"id":65789,"date":"2025-09-30T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65789"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:26:25","slug":"ophiorrhiza-echinata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ophiorrhiza-echinata\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophiorrhiza Echinata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ophiorrhiza echinata Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new coffee plant species named Ophiorrhiza echinata was recently found in the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ophiorrhiza echinata<\/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 species of coffee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the highly biodiversity-rich <\/span><b>shola forests of 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;\"> at Devikulam in the Idukki District of <\/span><b>Kerala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It grows in the<\/span><b> ecotone region between evergreen forest and grassland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vegetation at an elevation of 1,630 m above sea level and <\/span><b>may have medicinal potential.<\/b><\/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 Rubiaceae <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is closely related to the genus Ophiorrhiza mungos, which is a key ingredient in cancer treatment and antidote preparations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ophiorrhiza echinata has so far only been collected from the type locality.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The area of occupancy is estimated to be less than four square kilometres, and the known populations contain a maximum of only 35 plants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kochi\/newly-discovered-coffee-plant-species-may-have-medicinal-potential-say-researchers\/articleshow\/124219512.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophiorrhiza echinata is a new species of coffee plant discovered in the highly biodiversity-rich shola forests of the Western Ghat. Read more about Ophiorrhiza Echinata, Discovery, Family, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":65861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2989],"class_list":{"0":"post-65789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ophiorrhiza-echinata","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65789","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=65789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}