Comprehensive Description
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英語
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由North American Flora提供
Impatiens balsamina L,. Sp. PI. 938. 1753. '
Balsamina femina Gaertn. Fruct. 2 : 151. 1790. Balsamina liortensts Desp. Diet. Sci. Nat. 3 : 485. 1805.
Annual ; stem 3-10 dm. high, simple, more or less pubescent, especially on the younger parts ; leaf-blades oblanceolate, acute, 5-15 cm. long, sharply serrate, sparingly hairy or glabrous, gradually tapering into the short petioles, which bear prominent glands ; flowers solitary or rarely geminate in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, puberulent ; lateral sepals ovate, 2-3 mm. long ; posterior sepal rose or purple, broadly conic, 5-8 mm. deep, 10-15 mm. wide, with an arcuate cylindric spur varying in length, usually thickened at the very end ; anterior petal broadly obovate, about 8-10 mm. long ; lateral and posterior petals obovate, 2-2.5 cm. long ; capsule ovoid, villous, 15-20 mm. long and about 8 mm. wide.
Type locality : India.
Distribution : Native of southern Asia ; cultivated and occasionally escaped in the United States, from Pennsylvania south ; naturalized in the West Indies.
- 書目引用
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
