Botanical name: Impatiens dalaiensis    Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)

Dalai Balsam is a newly described (2015) Balsam species from Dalai Valley of Arunachal Pradesh. It is an annual herb, fleshy, up to 1.2 m tall. Stems are green, basal portion round, pink spotted, nodes swollen. Leaves are alternate, simple; stipules 2, glandular, 4-5 mm long, base flat; leaf-stalk 0.5-2 cm long, hairless, slightly winged, pink or pink spotted; blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 5-18.5 x 1.5-4 cm, dorsally green with pink tinge, ventrally green, hairless, margin rounded toothed, base winged, tip tapering, mid rib dorsally pink. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in clusters 12-29 cm long. It differs from Impatiens radiata by flower buds with a prominent awn, lower sepal mouth with a distinct awn or appendage, distal lobes of lateral united petals long ribbon shaped, twisted, tip pointed, and fruit club-shaped. It differs from Impatiens graciliflora by flower buds with a distinct awn, lower sepal mouth with an awn or appendage, less than half the length of spur in lower sepal, distal lobe long ribbon shaped, twisted and pointed at tip. Dalai Balsam is found in Arunachal Pradesh to China.

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