CHR 499302 – Impatiens balsamina L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 499302
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
30 January 1995
Database record updated:
04 February 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Impatiens balsamina L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-08-22 (Verbatim: 22 Aug 1993)
Preferred name:
Impatiens balsamina L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Geraniales
Family:
Balsaminaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Nikao
Verbatim locality:
Nikao
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4609/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
22 Aug 1993
Start date:
1993-08-22
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Rarotonga
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Herb with simple, ± erect fleshy stems, often pink or red towards the top. Leaves membranous; petioles often with dark red glands. Pedicels recurving after flowering, ± red, according to the colour form. Calyx 13-14 mm long, mauve-pink. Corolla c. 3 cm long, deep rose or crimson (other colours present but these were by far the commonest), irregular. Petals c. 3 x 2.2 cm, bilobed, broadly obovate; the short claw paler; lower "petal" smaller than the others, c. 15 mm long including short green spur. Fruits pale green. Seeds freely produced and some plants probably were spontaneous.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
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