| Hatchet-Wing Balsam |
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| File size | 294296 |
| Original date | 10/30/07 10:12 AM |
| Resolution | 1700 x 1275 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 23.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 4.9 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon DIGITAL IXUS 700 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens ligulata Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Hatchet-Wing Balsam is an erect herb, 1-2 ft tall,
with branches slender, spreading. Flowers arise singly or in
fascicles, pink or white; flower-stalks slender, about 3.5 cm long.
Lateral sepals are linear-lanceshaped. Lip pouch-like, spur stout,
about 2 cm long, wavy. Standard small, with a velvet-hairy line on
dorsal side. Wings are 2-lobed; distal lobes slender; dorsal ear
thread-like, descending into spur. Basal lobes are hatchet-shaped.
Leaves are opposite, nearly stalkless, linear-lanceshaped, mucronate,
sawtoothed, 7.5-10 cm long, bristly above; stipules bristly or absent.
Capsules ellipsoid; seeds about 12, shining. Hatchet-Wing Balsam is
endemic to Southern Western Ghats, found in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Flowering: July-October.
| Identification credit: Shrishail Kulloli | Photographed in Kerala. |
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