{"id":9186,"date":"2022-10-22T04:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:16:37","slug":"allmania-multiflora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/allmania-multiflora\/","title":{"rendered":"Allmania multiflora"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Allmania Multiflora:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is named Allmania multiflora.<\/li>\n<li>The species is quite special from both the botanical and conservation points of view.<\/li>\n<li>Allmania multiflora\u00a0is only the second species of this genus identified so far anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>It is an annual herb that grows to a height of about 60 cm, erect, with branches arising from the base.<\/li>\n<li>The stem is red to violet at the base and green above.<\/li>\n<li>Found at heights ranging between 1,000 to 1,250 metres.<\/li>\n<li>Shorter tepals and wider gynoecium (parts of the flower), shorter bracts and in the diameter of the seeds are among the characteristics that distinguishes it from\u00a0Allmania nodiflora.<\/li>\n<li>Flowering and fruiting occurs from May to September.<\/li>\n<li>Allmania multiflora\u00a0has been so named for having a higher number of florets within an inflorescence.<\/li>\n<li>Given its small population, the researchers have assessed it as Critically Endangered, applying IUCN Red List criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Allmania Nodiflora:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is distinct from\u00a0Allmania nodiflora, which so far had been accepted as the lone\u00a0Allmania\u00a0species.<\/li>\n<li>The first species,\u00a0Allmania nodiflora, was originally published under the genus\u00a0Celosia\u00a0as\u00a0Celosia nodiflora\u00a0in 1753.<\/li>\n<li>Specimens found in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) were first described as\u00a0Allmania nodiflora\u00a0in 1834.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/plant-spotted-in-palakkad-is-second-species-of-the-genus-allmania-say-researchers\/article66040275.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allmania multiflora&#8217;s stem is red to violet at the base and green above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9186","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\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}