{"id":69091,"date":"2025-10-15T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69091"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:20:46","slug":"impatiens-rajibiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/impatiens-rajibiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Impatiens Rajibiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Impatiens Rajibiana Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of the Botanical Survey of India recently discovered &#8216;Impatiens rajibiana&#8217;, a new species of balsam flower.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Impatiens Rajibiana<\/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 balsam flower.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the natural forests of Shergaon in the West Kameng district of<\/span><b> Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plant was discovered growing in <\/span><b>moist, shaded forest areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Shergaon at an elevation of over 2,000 meters.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the <\/span><b>family Balsaminaceae, commonly known as balsams.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Many balsam species are endemic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, occurring only in the region and often in limited numbers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>India currently has around 230 known balsam species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including <\/span><b>well-known varieties like Impatiens balsamina (garden balsam or touch-me-not).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Between 2013 and 2017, over 16 new species <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were discovered i<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">n Arunachal Pradesh <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alone, including Impatiens godfreyi and Impatiens sashinborthakurii.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/story\/national\/scientists-discover-new-species-of-balsam-flower-in-arunachal-pradesh\/3006085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>PTI<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impatiens rajibiana is a new species of balsam flower. Read more aboutImpatiens rajibiana, Discovery, Habitat, Family, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":69066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3264],"class_list":{"0":"post-69091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-impatiens-rajibiana","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69091","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=69091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}