Thanks, Saroj ji and Ushadi On Sun 30 Sep, 2018, 5:40 PM Saroj Kumar Kasaju, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
