Context:

• A new plant of the Brachystelma R.Br. species has been found in Tumakuru (Karnataka), and has been named after the district from where its type material was collected.
• ‘B. tumakurense’ comes from a tuber and belongs to the Apocynaceae family (a family of flowering plants).

Brachystelma R.Br.

• It is the second largest genus in the tribe Ceropegieae with over 116 species distributed in the old-world tropics.
• They are slender stemmed with a brilliant display of colours in their flowers, especially in their corolla and coronal structures.

• They are mainly distributed in Peninsular India in dry hill ranges.
• There are seven species from Karnataka.

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