{"id":1150,"date":"2026-05-29T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:03:15","slug":"researchers-discover-rare-new-tree-species-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/researchers-discover-rare-new-tree-species-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover rare new tree species in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Researchers discover rare new tree species in Kerala<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong>News<\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Researchers from the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Kerala, have discovered a\u00a0<strong>new evergreen tree species from the southern Western Ghats of Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png 324w, https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The newly discovered species\u00a0identified\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Shendurney\u00a0Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong>\u00a0has been officially named,\u00a0<em>Humboldtia\u00a0nairiana<\/em>.\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The species, belonging to the genus<em>\u00a0Humboldtia<\/em>, has been\u00a0<strong>named in\u00a0honour\u00a0of G.M. Nair,<\/strong>\u00a0a distinguished plant biotechnologist and former Director of JNTBGRI.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The species is<strong>\u00a0strictly endemic to Kerala<\/strong>\u00a0and is\u00a0<strong>presently known only from\u00a0<\/strong>the biodiversity-rich<strong>\u00a0Agasthyamala\u00a0Biosphere Reserve<\/strong>\u00a0at an elevation of about\u00a0300 meters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers discover rare new tree species in Kerala News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}