{"id":87258,"date":"2020-05-24T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:43:24","slug":"three-new-plant-species-in-western-ghats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/three-new-plant-species-in-western-ghats\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new plant Species in Western Ghats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have discovered three new plant species in the evergreen forest patches of the southern end of the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Eugenia sphaerocarpa:<\/strong> It belongs to the Myrtaceae or Rose apple family.It was found in the Malabar wildlife sanctuary in Kerala.<\/li><li><strong>Goniothalamus sericeus: <\/strong>It belongs to the Annonaceae family of custard apple.It has been found in the Kanyakumari wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.<\/li><li><strong>Memecylon nervosum: <\/strong>It belongs to the Melastomataceae (Kayamboo or Kaasavu in local parlance) family.It was found at the Kanyakumari wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Botanical Survey of India(BSI)<\/strong>: Founded in 1890, it comes under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.<\/li><li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>Survey, research and conservation of plant resources, flora and endangered species of India including by collecting and maintaining germplasm and gene bank of endangered, patent and vulnerable plant species.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have discovered three new plant species in the evergreen forest patches of the southern end of the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Facts: Eugenia sphaerocarpa: It belongs to the Myrtaceae or Rose apple family.It was found in the Malabar wildlife sanctuary in Kerala. Goniothalamus sericeus: It belongs to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/three-new-plant-species-in-western-ghats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three new plant Species in Western Ghats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[923,4290],"class_list":["post-87258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-species","tag-western-ghats","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704785481},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}