{"id":29796,"date":"2018-10-26T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29796"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:02:08","slug":"western-ghats-reveal-worlds-smallest-land-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ghats-reveal-worlds-smallest-land-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Ghats reveal world\u2019s smallest land fern\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/western-ghats-reveal-worlds-smallest-land-fern\/article23661416.ece\"><strong>Western Ghats reveal world\u2019s smallest land fern<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discovery of world\u2019s smallest land fern<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian researchers have discovered the world\u2019s smallest land fern hiding in the Ahwa forests of the Western Ghats in Gujarat\u2019s Dang district. The fingernail-sized fern belongs to a group known as the adder\u2019s-tongue ferns, named after their resemblance to a snake\u2019s tongue<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Species name<\/u><\/strong>: <em>Ophioglossum malviae<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unique features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A look at the plant\u2019s minuscule seeds (called spores) under a powerful electron microscope revealed it had a unique thick outer layer which similar species lacked<\/li>\n<li>The plant\u2019s DNA was also found to vary enough from its relatives to call it a new species<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Size<\/u><\/strong>: 1 cm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is a fern?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ferns\u00a0are a group of about 20,000 species of plants (of which about 10,000 are living) in the division Pteridophyta. Unlike bryophytes,\u00a0ferns\u00a0have xylem and phloem, which makes them vascular plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Ghats reveal world\u2019s smallest land fern Context Discovery of world\u2019s smallest land fern What has happened? Indian researchers have discovered the world\u2019s smallest land fern hiding in the Ahwa forests of the Western Ghats in Gujarat\u2019s Dang district. The fingernail-sized fern belongs to a group known as the adder\u2019s-tongue ferns, named after their resemblance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ghats-reveal-worlds-smallest-land-fern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western Ghats reveal world\u2019s smallest land fern\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29796","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}