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Impatiens cochinica
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Family:
BALSAMINACEAE
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Citation: Impatiens cochinica Hook. f., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1911: 355. 1911; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 142(101). 1915; Vivek. et al. in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 133. 1997; N.C. Rathakr. et al. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 535. 2005.
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Description:
Shrub, to 50 cm high, glabrous or puberulous; branches stout. Leaves alternate at base, whorled above and on branches, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, crenate at margin, 6-10 cm long; petioles slender, 2-4 cm long. Pedicels shorter than leaves. Flowers solitary or in fascicles. Lateral sepals ovate-triangled, ca 1 mm long. Lip cymbiform, ca 6 mm long, pubescent; spur slender, incurved, ca 1.8 cm long. Standard orbicular, 2-lobed with a mucro in sinus. Wings ca 8x 8 mm, 2 lobed; lobes broadly obcordate; basal lobe smaller; dorsal auricle rotundate. Capsules ovoid, gibbous, beaked, ca 1.5 cm long, few-seeded; seeds obovoid, ca 2 mm long, pubescent.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along stream sides in shola forests
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Distribution:
South India (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
-600
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Localities:
Cochin
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