Brachystelma tumakurense is a new plant, slender stemmed with a vivid display of colours in their flowers, discovered in 2017 by a group of Agricultural scientists in Devarayanadurga in Karnataka's Tumakuru district
Brachystelma tumakurense Did you know that Brachystelma tumakurense is a new plant, slender stemmed with a vivid display of colours in their flowers, discovered in 2017 by a group of Agricultural scientists in Devarayanadurga in Karnataka's Tumakuru district, and hence the suffix "tumakurense"? Brachystelma tumakurense, a new species, is a tuber derivative which belongs to the Apocynaceae family (a family of flowering plants) with the pollens similar to orchids, which was found in flowering while bearing leaves. It was discovered for the first time in 2017 in Devarayanadurga (a temple town and hill station) near Namda Chilume (700 m elevation), in Karnataka's Tumakuru district , and it has been rightly named after the district from where its type material was collected by agricultural scientists as ‘B. tumakurense’. The scientists who disocvered and anlysed this rare sample of plant were Gundappa B.V. from the Wildlife Aware Nature Club, Tu...
