| Shining Balsam |
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| File size | 149107 |
| Original date | 11/20/06 8:53 AM |
| Resolution | 896 x 672 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Impatiens dasysperma Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens lucida
Synonyms: Impatiens lucida
Shining Balsam is an erect herbs, 30 cm tall.
Flowers are pink, 2 cm across, solitary or paired, in leaf axils.
Flower-stalks are 3 cm long, lip 7 x 4 mm, long-pointed, hairless. Spur
is prominent, 1.7 cm long, narrow, minutely hairy. Sepals are small,
ovate, pointed, hairy. Standard petals is 9 x 6 mm, obovate, notched at
tip, sharply cuspidate, keeled, keel frilly. Wings are 9 x 10 mm,
equally 2-lobed, lobes obovate, inverted-heart-shaped. Leaves are up to
11 x 3.5 cm, elliptic, tapering at tip, narrow at base, toothed, hairy
below, carried on 4 cm long stalk. Capsule is 12 x 6 mm, hairless,
seeds 1.5 mm ovoid, minutely hairy. Shining Balsam is endemic to
Western Ghats. Flowering: November-December.
| Identification credit: Shrishail Kulloli, Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Munnar, Kerala & Sakleshpur, Karnataka. |
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