Abstract

Brachystelma pullaiahi Ravi Prasad Rao, Prasad, Sadasivaiah, Suresh Babu and Prasanna, a new species of Brachystelma R. Br. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae - Ceropegieae) is described and illustrated. This species located in the hills of Eastern Ghats of Southern Andhra Pradesh is similar to B. maculatum Hook. f. but differs in having long stems, solitary flowers, ash-coloured corolla base, very long and non-keeled, pale yellow corolla lobes with white hairs and biseriate yellow corona.

中文摘要

本文記述並描繪夾竹桃科蘿藦亞科吊燈花族潤肺草屬之一新種 – 普萊亞氏潤肺草（Brachystelma pullaiahi Ravi Prasad Rao, Prasad, Sadasivaiah, Khadar Basha, Suresh Babu and Prasanna）。本植物產於印度安得拉邦南部的東高止山，與B. maculatum Hook. f.近似，不同處在於本種具有較長的莖、單生花、花冠基部灰色、細長無稜淡黃色的花冠裂片具有白毛以及兩列的黃色副花冠。

Keyword: Apocynaceae, Brachystelma pullaiahi, Andhra Pradesh, India, new species.夾竹桃科、普萊亞氏潤肺草、印度安得拉邦、新種。