Botanical name: Impatiens rosea    Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens balsamina var. rosea, Impatiens balsamina var. brevicalcarata

Rosy Short-Spur Balsam is a herb, about 40 cm tall. Flowers are 1-3 per axil, 1.5-2 cm across, pink with yellow patches on throat. Bracts small, triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy; flower-stalks 8–10 mm long, finely velvet-hairy or hairless, pale green or pink. Lateral sepals are ovate-lanceshaped, 2-2.5 × 1 mm, pointed. Standard petal is concave, horned, round, 0.8-1 cm long, horn 2.5-3 mm long, green. Wing petals are 1.6-1.8 x 0.9-1 cm, 2-lobed; ear curved, rounded; basal lobe obovate, 6-8 x 3.8-4 mm, blunt at tip; dorsal lobe irregularly obovate, 9-10 x 6-8 mm. Lower sepal (lip) is boat-shaped, horned, 1-1.2 x 4-6 mm, about 4 mm deep, tapering at tip, hairy; horn 1.8-2 mm long, green; spur slightly hooked, cylindric, 6-8 mm long, rounded, pale green. Stem is round, smooth, pale green. Leaves are alternate, linear-lanceshaped or linear-inverted-lanceshaped, 4-8 x 0.5-1 cm, tapering at tip, narrowed at base, sawtoothed at margins; leaf-stalks 0.5-1 cm long, with 2-5 pairs of glands. Capsules are ellipsoid, 1-1.2 cm long, woolly, carried on stalks 1-1.5 cm long. It grows on large rock surfaces at elevation between 1390-1400 m above msl. The present population was found to have about 300 mature individuals. Rosy Short-Spur Balsam is found in Northern Himalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. Flowering: July-December.

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