{"id":157988,"date":"2022-01-03T20:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=157988"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:20:03","slug":"two-plant-species-discovered-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-plant-species-discovered-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Two plant species discovered in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have discovered two <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new plant species from the Western Ghats regions in Thiruvananthapuram and Wayanad districts of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two plant species have been named as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fimbristylis sunilii<\/strong> and <strong>Neanotis prabhuii<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Fimbristylis sunilii?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157989 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_1_mr.jpeg?resize=239%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_1_mr.jpeg?resize=239%2C300&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_1_mr.jpeg?w=422&amp;ssl=1 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <strong>perennial plant<\/strong> of the Cyperaceae family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It stands 20-59 cm tall and was collected from an elevation of 1,100 metres in <strong>Western Ghats<\/strong> region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been provisionally assessed as <strong>data deficient<\/strong> (DD) under the IUCN Red List categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Neanotis prabhuii?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157990 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_2_mr.jpg?resize=235%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_2_mr.jpg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/953a950f_4618312_2_mr.jpg?w=415&amp;ssl=1 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a prostrate <strong>perennial herb<\/strong> named after <strong>K.M. Prabhukumar<\/strong> in recognition of his research on flowering plants of the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the <strong>Chembra Peak grasslands<\/strong> of Wayanad. It hails from the family Rubiaceae and grows on <strong>high-altitude grasslands<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It grows up to 70 cm in length and is many-flowered with the petals pale pink in colour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u2018<\/b><b>Two plant species discovered in Kerala<\/b><b>\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span>\u00a0<strong>The Hindu\u00a0<\/strong>on<b> 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Jan 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Researchers have discovered two new plant species from the Western Ghats regions in Thiruvananthapuram and Wayanad districts of Kerala. These two plant species have been named as Fimbristylis sunilii and Neanotis prabhuii. What is Fimbristylis sunilii? It is a perennial plant of the Cyperaceae family. It stands 20-59 cm tall and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-plant-species-discovered-in-kerala\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two plant species discovered in Kerala<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-157988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}