{"id":11327,"date":"2021-07-12T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2021-07-13T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T00:18:22","slug":"sikkim-blossoms-smallest-state-home-to-27-of-indias-flowering-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11327","title":{"rendered":"**  Sikkim blossoms: smallest State home to 27% of India\u2019s flowering plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Botanical Survey of India publication lists 4,912 naturally occurring flowering plants in the tiny Himalayan State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sikkim, the smallest State with less than 1% of India\u2019s landmass, is home to 27% of all flowering plants found in the country, reveals a recent publication by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).&nbsp;<em>Flora of Sikkim \u2013 A Pictorial Guide<\/em>, released earlier this week, lists 4,912 naturally occurring flowering plants in the tiny Himalayan State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe total number of naturally occurring flowering plants in the country is about 18,004 species, and with 4,912 species, the diversity of flowering plants in Sikkim, spread over an area of 7,096 sq. km. is very unique,\u201d Rajib Gogoi, Scientist and Regional Head, BSI, Gangtok, and the lead author of the publication, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botanical Survey of India publication lists 4,912 naturally occurring flowering plants in the tiny Himalayan State Sikkim, the smallest State with less than 1% of India\u2019s landmass, is home to 27% of all flowering plants found in the country, reveals a recent publication by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).&nbsp;Flora of Sikkim \u2013 A Pictorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=11327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Sikkim blossoms: smallest State home to 27% of India\u2019s flowering plants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,4,6,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-economy","category-green-products","category-nature","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11329,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions\/11329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}