| Rock Balsam |
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| File size | 194119 |
| Original date | 7/10/11 3:20 PM |
| Resolution | 1016 x 762 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens rupicola Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens rivulicola
Synonyms: Impatiens rivulicola
Rock Balsam is a herbs 20-30 cm tall, with stems
tetragonous. Leaves are opposite, shortly stalked , linear, pointed or
tapering, entire or rarely very minutely minutely toothed, 3-4 cm long,
leathery; leaf-stalks with stipitate glands at base. Flowers arise
singly or in 2-3-flowered fascicles, 0.5-2 cm long, rose to
bluish-purple, carried on flower-stalks 1-1.5 cm long, 2-2.5 cm long in
fruiting, deflexed. Lateral sepals are linear, tapering, about 1 cm
long. Lip is boat-shaped; spur incurved, short. Standard is round,
dorsally keeled. Wings are up to 2 cm long, clawed, 2-lobed; basal
lobes oblong, erect or decurved, small; distal lobes semilunate,
fleshy; dorsal ear short. Capsules are ovoid, 0.8 - 1 cm long,
drooping; seeds spherical, hardly 2 mm, black, shining. Rock Balsam is
endemic to Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala.
| Identification credit: V. Bhaskar | Photographed in Kudal, Konkan, Maharashtra. |
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