| Umbelled Balsam |
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| File size | 498937 |
| Original date | 9/13/10 5:14 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 6.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A2000 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens umbellata Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Umbelled Balsam is an annual herb, 15-30 cm tall,
with stems branched, naked below. Flower-cluster-stalks are 2.5-4.5 cm
long; bracts lanceshaped, about 4 mm long, green; flower-stalks about 2
cm long. Flowers are borne in unbels at branch-ends, rarely in racemes,
pinkish red. Lateral sepals are broadly ovate. Lip is boat-shaped; spur
incurved, slender, 2.5-3.5 cm long; standard round. Wings are 2-lobed;
lobes nearly equal. Leaves are arrange in rosettes, ovate-elliptic,
rarely round, rounded toothed and fringed with hairs on crenatures at
margin, blunt or pointed at tip, 2.5-5 cm long, membranous; leaf-stalks
0.6-3.5 cm long. Capsules are ellipsoid, about 8 mm long, turgid; seeds
echinate. Umbelled Balsam is endemic to Southern Western Ghats, in
Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Flowering: August-December.
| Identification credit: Shrishail Kulloli | Photographed in Kerala. |
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