| Pink Long-Spur Balsam |
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| Original date | 7/6/14 5:25 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.28mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX9V |
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Botanical name: Impatiens gardneriana Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens setosa
Synonyms: Impatiens setosa
Pink Long-Spur Balsam is an annual herb 30-40 cm high,
stems creeping at base and rooting, ascending branched or not.
It is named for Hon. Edward Gardner, representing the
East India Company in the early 19th century. Leaves
are opposite and whorled, ovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceshaped,
wedge-shaped at base, sawtoothed at margin, tapering at tip, 3-12 x 1-4
cm, fringed with hairs at margin towards base, sparsely velvet-hairy;
leaf-stalks are 1.2-3.5 cm long, velvet-hairy. Flower-cluster-stalks
are thread-like, 2-3.5 cm long, hairless. Flowers are borne in
leaf-axils, solitary or in fascicles, about 2.5 cm across, pink.
Lateral sepals are ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, tapering, fringed with
hairs. Lip is boat-shaped, spur curved upwards, about 1.8 cm long,
slender. Standard is nearly round-obovate, apiculate, dorsally keeled.
Wings 2-lobed; lobes obovate, distal lobe larger. Capsules are round in
cross-section, about 1.5 cm long; seeds hairy. Pink Long-Spur Balsam is
endemic to Southern Western Ghats, Karnataka and Kerala. Flowering:
July-November.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Sakleshpur, Karnataka. |
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