Tumakurense
- August 19, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Tumakurense
Subject – Environment
Context – New plant found in Tumakuru takes the district’s name.
Concept –
- A new plant of the Brachystelma R.Br. species has been found in Tumakuru, 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. 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. All of them exhibit erect stems and are nonclimbing in nature.