CHR 574467 – Impatiens L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 574467
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
21 July 2005
Database record updated:
21 July 2005
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Impatiens
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Impatiens L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Geraniales
Family:
Balsaminaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
WR Sykes 138/00
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
30 8 00
Start date:
2000-08-30
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Glasshouse
Notes:
Small soft-wooded shrub or subshrub. Leaves dark velvety green above except for pink midrib, dark red beneath except for 2 prominent green basal glands; veins raised beneath; petiole pinkish-red. Cultivated for c. 2 - 3 years under the name "Velvetea Secret Love". Flowers ± declined on a very flexible pedicel. Calyx shining light green. Lower (posterior by resupination) sepal c. 2 x 2.5 cm; spur c. 9 cm long, obtuse. Corolla very irregular, forming a circular orifice 1.6 - 1.8 cm across the lower part, whitish except for orange spots, especially dense on the recurved margin of lateral petals; 2 lower petals united in lower third, 2.1 - 2.2 x 1.7 - 1.9 cm, irregularly obovate, white with yellow base inside, each with a small lobe facing inwards near the rounded apex; dorsal (by resupination) petal c. 2 x 1.2 cm, rhombic-obovate, greenish-white with deep red blotches; keel prominent, acute, deep green.
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