黄金凤 Impatiens siculifer

  • Scientific Name: Impatiens siculifer Hook.f.
  • Ref: Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., sér. 4, 10:246. 1908
  • Chinese Common Name: 黄金凤 huángjīnfèng
  • Family: Balsaminaceae
  • Genus: Impatiens
  • Distribution: Dense forests, bamboo forests, mixed forests, grasslands on slopes, along canals, moist places; 800-2600 m. Fujian, ?Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.
  • Photo: 10/05/2014, Huaping, Guangxi
Plants annual, 30-60 cm tall. Stem slender, simple or few branched. Leaves alternate, usually crowded at upper part of stem, upper leaves subsessile, lower leaves with petiole 1.5-3 cm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-13 × 2.5-5 cm, setose between teeth, lateral veins 5-11 pairs, base cuneate, margin crenate or coarsely crenate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences in upper leaf axils, racemose, 5-8-flowered. Pedicels slender or stout, bracteate at base; bracts persistent, lanceolate. Flowers yellow or purple, ca. 3 cm deep. Lateral sepals 2, narrowly oblong, ca. 5 mm, membranous, slightly thickening on 1 side, 3-5-veined, apex cuspidate. Lower sepal narrowly funnelform, narrowed into an incurved or recurved, long spur, tip shortly rostellate. Upper petal suborbicular or orbicular, abaxial midvein thickened, narrowly winged; lateral united petals not clawed, 2-lobed; basal lobes subtriangular; distal lobes lorate. Anthers obtuse. Capsule clavate. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Oct-Nov. (Flora of China)

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