| Large-Sepal Sticky Balsam |
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| File size | 716166 |
| Original date | 7/27/14 11:18 PM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.455mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX50 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens viscida Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Large-Sepal Sticky Balsam is a herb, 0.5-1 m high,
branched, rooting at lower nodes; stems angled. Leaves are alternate,
elliptic-lanceshaped, sawtoothed at margin, 5-8 cm long, velvet-hairy
beneath; nerves stiff-hairy on both surfaces. Flowers are borne in leaf
axils, in umbels or racemes, deep pink or light purple, carried on
flower-cluster-stalks 5-10 cm long, sticky; flower-stalks are sticky
too. Lateral sepals are nearly round, as long as the upper petal. Lower
sepals (Lip) is boat-shaped; spur long, incurved. Distal lobes of wings
are large, nearly round. Capsules is ellipsoid, hairless, not
splitting open, about 8 mm long, tip beaked, swollen. Seeds are many,
spherical or oval, about 1.5 mm across, hairy, brown. Large-Sepal
Sticky Balsam is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: April-December.
| Identification credit: Shrishail Kulloli, P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Kodaikanal Hills, Tamilnadu. |
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