description is apt, and nice pictorial depiction i too await validation by or experts
usha di On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:16 PM Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > This Impatiens herb was seen at Eravikulam National Park, Munnar. > > Bot. name: *Impatiens brevicornis (*E. Barnes*) *Bhaskar, ?? (Pl. > validate), > > Family: Balsaminaceae > > (Description as given in https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/281300 > ) > > Annual herbs, about 15-30 cm tall. Stems erect, woody, terete, succulent, > long, glabrous or shortly sparsely hairs. Leaves opposite decussate, linear > lanceolate-elliptic to linear oblong, about 2-10 x 0.3-1.4 cm across, base > subcordate, acute or rounded, margins finely serrate with prominent teeth, > basal serratures often setaceous, apex acuminate, lateral veins about 4-7 > on either side of the midrib, green sparsely scabrid hairy above and paler > glaucous and veins brownish, beneath, petiole sessile in lower leaves and > subsessile above, stipules subulate, recurved, with persistent stipular > glands. Inflorescence resupinate, axillary, solitary or fascicled in the > upper parts of the plant, usually glabrous. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, > white, rose purple, or pale scarlet, about 1.8 cm across, pedicel slender, > variable, ascending, about 2-3 cm long, deflexed in fruit, sepals 3, > imbricate, 2 lateral ones flat, small, linear, acute, usually green, > glabrous, about 5-7 mm long, posterior sepal (Lip) large, petaloid, > obovate, bucciniform or boat shaped with some marking on one side, spurred, > *spur > abruptly constricted, incurved bow like, inflated in middle and hook-like > or bifid, minutely hirtellous, about 1-1.8 cm long,* petals 5, free, > purple, pink, white or reddish voilet, upper standard petal, keeled or > cucullate, orbicular-obcordate, bilobed, apex shortly acute, about 5-7 x > 4-8 mm across, lateral ones (wings or alae), fused in pairs, basal lobes > ovate-triangular to elliptic, about 4 mm long, distal lobes, broadly > elliptic, about 2-2.2 cm long, curved upwards, dorsal auricle absent. > Stamens 5, alternating with petals, anthers bi-locular, pollen 4 colpate. > Ovary 5 locular, superior. Fruit indehiscent, capsule, narrow fusiform or > elliptic, about 1.2-2 cm long, swollen in the middle, loculicidally > dehiscing by 5 valves, springing away elastically from axis, glabrous. > Seeds many, globose or oblong, black, shining, glabrous), > > Thanks & Regards > Prashant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
