| Sickle-Bearing Balsam |
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| Original date | 5/8/13 1:55 AM |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1440 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-S3 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens drepanophora Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Sickle-Bearing Balsam is an annual, robust lant about
1 m tall. Flowers are borne in 5-10-flowered racemes in leaf-axils or
at branch-ends. Flowers-cluster-stalks are spreading, 7-10 cm.
Flower-stalks are 1.5-2 cm, slender, with bracts at base. Bracts fall
off, are ovate-lanceshaped, gland-tipped. Flowers are yellow, about 3.5
cm deep; buds ovoid. Lateral sepals 2, greenish, sickle shaped, about 2
mm, with tips like long antennas. Lower sepal is constricted into an
involute-incurved spur; tip green, long horned. Upper petal is spurred;
lateral united petals clawed; basal lobes red spotted, narrowly oblong;
distal lobes oblong-axe-shaped. Stem is round, branched, hairless.
Leaves are alternate; leaf-stalk up to 5 cm. Leaves are
ovate-lanceshaped, 6-13 x 2-4 cm, with 2 stipitate basal glands,
hairless, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, base wedge-shaped, tip tapering.
Capsule is club-shaped. Sickle-Bearing Balsam is found in Assam,
China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, at altitudes
up to 2000-2200 m.
| Identification credit: Rajib Gogoi | Photographed in Yazali & East Siang distt., Arunachal Pradesh. |
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