{"id":175393,"date":"2026-03-02T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=175393"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:28:50","slug":"ophiorrhiza-mizoramensis-new-coffee-family-plant-from-mizoram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ophiorrhiza-mizoramensis-new-coffee-family-plant-from-mizoram\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophiorrhiza mizoramensis \u2014 New Coffee-Family Plant from Mizoram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ophiorrhiza mizoramensis is a newly discovered species of flowering shrub belonging to the Rubiaceae (coffee) family. The plant was identified in Murlen National Park in Mizoram, close to the Indo-Myanmar border, a region known for high floral diversity and endemism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery adds to India\u2019s growing list of endemic plant species and highlights the ecological significance of protected forests in Northeast India, especially in transboundary biodiversity hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Details of&nbsp;<em>Ophiorrhiza mizoramensis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Discovery Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Murlen National Park, near the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Found in:<\/strong> Murlen National Park, Mizoram, near the Indo-Myanmar border.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>It grows up to one meter high and produces striking dark purplish-pink tubular flowers with uniquely structured stigma lobes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Physical Characteristics:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Flowers:<\/strong>\u00a0Dark purplish-pink tubular flowers (up to\u00a0long).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leaves:<\/strong>\u00a0Possesses 10\u201319 pairs of lateral leaf veins and petioles up to\u00a0long.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stipules:<\/strong>\u00a0Persistent and ovate in shape.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stigma:<\/strong>\u00a0Oblanceolate, measuring about\u00a0in length.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\u00a0Provisionally assessed as \u201cCritically Endangered,\u201d with fewer than 200 mature individuals found in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophiorrhiza mizoramensis is a newly discovered species of flowering shrub belonging to the Rubiaceae (coffee) family. The plant was identified in Murlen National Park in Mizoram, close to the Indo-Myanmar border, a region known for high floral diversity and endemism. The discovery adds to India\u2019s growing list of endemic plant species and highlights the ecological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":175400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5399],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-175393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2026","tag-discovery-invention-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175401,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175393\/revisions\/175401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}