{"id":355406,"date":"2026-02-05T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355406"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:23:20","slug":"pakhal-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pakhal-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> \u00a0Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have identified a new species of flowering plant in Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<h2>About<\/h2>\n<h2>Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355420\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-355420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-BSI.jpg?resize=319%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary\" width=\"319\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-BSI.jpg?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-BSI.jpg?w=614&amp;ssl=1 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; BSI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is situated in<\/span><b> Warangal district of Telangana.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>It was declared a sanctuary in <b>1952.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Area:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Approximately 839 square kilometres<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is <strong>home to Pakhal Lake,<\/strong> which was<\/span><b> constructed in 1213 AD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the orders of King <strong>Ganapati Deva of the Kakatiya dynasty.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The sanctuary is characterized by<\/span><b> mixed deciduous forests.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Flora: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vegetation mainly include<\/span><b>s bamboo and teak, along with a wide variety of plant species such as Terminalia, Pterocarpus, and Mahua. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It also supports numerous herbs, shrubs, and climbers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Fauna: Leopard, wild boar, panther, hyena, sloth bear, chital, mountain gazelle, blackbuck, crocodile, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">etc are found here. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reptiles like the<strong> python, cobra, russell\u2019s viper, common krait, monitor lizard, Indian chameleon,<\/strong> and occasionally,<strong> marsh crocodiles<\/strong> are also found here.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About Dicliptera pakhalica<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"text__StyledText-sc-n3xoc4-0 dGQdAY\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Floral species name:<\/strong> Dicliptera pakhalica<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family:<\/strong> Acanthaceae<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>genus Dicliptera is one of the most species-rich within the Acanthaceae family<\/strong>, with more than <strong>220 species distributed across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong> It has\u00a0<b data-path-to-node=\"1,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"199\">spiny (echinate) seeds<\/b>,<strong> an obovoid-shaped fruit capsule<\/strong>, a<strong> stem with downward-pointing (adpressed deflexed) hairs,<\/strong> and the<strong> absence of glandular hairs on its fruit and floral parts.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It<strong> flowers between November and January,<\/strong> with fruiting extending from December to March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: \u00a0Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have identified a new species of flowering plant in Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary. About Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary Location: It is situated in Warangal district of Telangana. It was declared a sanctuary in 1952.\u00a0 Area: Approximately 839 square kilometres It is home to Pakhal Lake, which was constructed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pakhal-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11318],"class_list":["post-355406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-new-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355406","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}