TY -JOUR AU -B. Ravi Prasad Rao AU -K. Prasad AU -B. Sadasivaiah AU -S. Khadar Basha AU -M.V. Suresh Babu and P.V. Prasanna TI -A New Species of Brachystelma R.Br. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae – Ceropegieae) from India PY -2011 DA -2011-09-15 JO -Taiwania VL -56 IS -3 SP -223 EP -226 UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/1084 AB - 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. DO -10.6165/tai.2011.56(3).223