I guess the ID is correct ! Thank you
saroj Kasaju On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 10:02:21 AM UTC+5:45, Ushadi wrote: > > 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.
