{"id":8549,"date":"2023-04-17T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:11:26","slug":"cycas-pectinata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cycas-pectinata\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycas Pectinata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cycas Pectinata:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It belongs to the family <strong>Cycadaceae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>evergreen<\/strong>, palm-like plant which is the only cycad species found in Bhutan.<\/li>\n<li>Cycads are one of the <strong>most ancient gymnosperms<\/strong>, possibly originating in the late <strong>Carboniferous period<\/strong> 300-325 million years ago and reaching the greatest diversity during the Jurassic-Cretaceous period.<\/li>\n<li>Gymnosperms have <strong>open-to-air unfertilised<\/strong> seeds to be directly fertilised by pollination.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN<\/strong>: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>genetic information<\/strong> contained in cycads makes them valuable for <strong>scientific research<\/strong> and conservation.<\/li>\n<li>These are bridges in major <strong>evolutionary transitions<\/strong> in plants and remain indispensable for understanding the origin and subsequent evolution of seed plants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>cultural and economic<\/strong> significance for native populations.<\/li>\n<li>Some locals in northeast India use the plant for <strong>religious ceremonies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Locals in some places (of Bhutan) use its seeds as a supplement to their <strong>diet<\/strong> and young leaves are eaten as a substitute for vegetables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an angiosperm tree?<\/h3>\n<p>An angiosperm tree is a type of tree that belongs to the angiosperm family, which includes all flowering plants. Angiosperm trees produce seeds that are enclosed within a fruit, such as an apple or an acorn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/plant-with-jurassic-link-under-stress-in-bhutan\/article66743362.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Plant with Jurassic link under stress in Bhutan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycas pectinata   is an evergreen, palm-like plant which is the only cycad species found in Bhutan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}