Impatiens spp. "New Guinea hybrid"
Location Collected: Sokehs, Dolon
Date Collected: Dec. 13, 99
Collected by: Emiso Weilbacher
Synomym:
- Genus: Impatiens [Tentative identification by D. Lee Ling]
- Family:
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- Growth form: herb
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: grows wildly along the road of Dolon
- Growth zone: tropical
- Average height: 41-58 cm
- Stem: non-woody stem or doesn't grow a true bark, unbranched, green mixed with red color
- Leaf arrangement: simple, alternate,
- Stipule: absent
- Petioles: 2-3 cm long
- Leaf blade: laceolate shape with an acuminate tip, pinnate venation, doubly
serrate,2.5-11 cm,
- Inflorescence: umble to panicle inflorescence with two to three pair of flowers coming
off from the top axis, pedicel is 4-6 cm long,
- Floral bracts: none
- Flower: rotate to spurred, actinomorphic, dioecious
- Calyx: four light green sepals
- Corolla: five pink pedals, rotate shaped,
- Stamens: single 5 mm long with purple powdery pores on the tip
- Ovary: posterior
- Style: single 3-4 mm long, green base and the tip is redish
- Fruit: none
- Seed: none
- Anything else:
- Cultural usage:
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