Impatiens morsei Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 29: t. 2874 (1908).
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| Impatiens morsei Hook.f., Photo by Hoang Thanh Son |
its native range is China (Guangxi).
Latin name:
Impatiens morsei Hook.f.
Family:
Balsaminaceae A.Rich.
Synonyms:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
Vietnamese name:
Móc tai morsei.
Chinese name:
龙州凤仙花 long zhou feng xian hua
Describtion:
Plants annual, 20-80 cm tall, glabrous. Stem erect, purple-tinged, robust, succulent, simple or branched, long naked in lower part. Leaves alternate, crowded apically; petiole 2-4 cm, stout; leaf blade greenish abaxially, dark green adaxially, ovate, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, 6-12 × 4-6 cm, with 2 globose basal glands, glabrous, lateral veins 9-12 pairs, base cuneate or acuminate, margin serrulate or crenulate, teeth mucronulate, apex acute. Peduncles absent. Pedicels 3-5 cm, without bracts, elongate after anthesis. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, white, pink, or purple, inside orange, red spotted, 2-3 cm. Lateral sepals 2, green, obliquely orbicular, 1-1.5 cm, thick, many veined, midvein conspicuous, apex mucronulate. Lower sepal navicular or funnelform, ca. 1.5 cm deep, abruptly constricted into an incurved spur shorter than limb; mouth vertical, ca. 1.2 cm wide. Upper petal orbicular, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex deeply retuse, abaxial midvein thickened; lateral united petals clawed, 2-lobed; basal lobes falcate-flabellate; distal lobes oblong, connate into 2-lobed lamella; auricle inconspicuous. Filaments linear, flattened; anthers obtuse. Ovary fusiform. Capsule ellipsoid, ca. 1.2 cm long, glabrous. Seeds up to 10-12, rounded, 2-4 mm long.
Fruit and Flowering:
Bloms in spring, summer and fall
Distribution:
Vietnam (Tuyen Quang), China (Gangxi).
Ecology:
Primary and secondary board-leaved evergreen sub-mountain forest on very steep rocky of Na Hang Nature Reserve; 200 - 500 m alt.
Chemical and Pharmacology:
Cultivation:
Uses:
Type Information:
Morse, H.B. [304], China K000199717 Unknown type material
References:
https://www.ipni.org/n/103797-1
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:103797-1
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250096535
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_morsei
https://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/156.htm
https://stevesleaves.com/products/impatiens-morsei-velvetea-secret-love
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242445550
Hoang Thanh Son, Trinh Ngoc Bon, Nguyen Quang Hung, Pham Van Vinh and Cao Van Lang, 2016. Impatiens morsei (Balsaminaceae): A newly recorded from Vietnam. Science Research Reporter, 6(1):01- 03.
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