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Impatiens macrocarpa
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Family:
BALSAMINACEAE
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Citation: Impatiens macrocarpa 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: 176. 1997; N.C. Rathakr. et al. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 549. 2005.
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Description:
Small shrub with spreading branches. Leaves opposite at base, in whorls of 3-5 above, obovate-oblanceolate, serrulate at margin, 8-10 cm long; petioles 3-5 cm long. Pedicels 3.5-5 cm long, 5-8 cm in fruit, stout, decurved. Flowers solitary or 2-nate, white with mauve. Lateral sepals ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, 4-6 mm long, coriaceous. Lip cymbiform, ca 6 mm long; spur stout, incurved, ca 1.2 cm long. Standard obcordate-reniform, cuspidate, 1.5-2 cm across. Wings sessile, stout, 2-lobed; basal lobe oblong-obovate, spreading or recurved; distal lobe oblong, erect, smaller. Capsules obliquely obovoid, beaked, 1.5-2 cm long, many seeded; seeds ca 5 mm long, granulate, chestnut-coloured.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (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):
White
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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:
-1800
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