- Family: Balsaminaceae A.Rich.
- Genus: Impatiens Riv. ex L.
Impatiens kentrodonta Gilg
- Genus: Impatiens Riv. ex L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tanzania (Ukaguru Mountains, Uluguru Mountains).
[FTEA]
Balsaminaceae, C. Grey-Wilson. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1993
- Habit
- Glabrous perennial 15–60 cm. tall, forming patches by means of rather thin underground rhizomes; stems erect, usually simple, rooting at the lower nodes.
- Leaves
- Leaves spirally arranged, dark green above, pale green beneath; petiole 1.8–4.9 cm. long, often with several ± 1 mm. long fimbriae at the top; lamina elliptical to elliptic-oblong or ovate-elliptic, 3.8–15 cm. long, 1.8–4.9 cm. broad, the base ± cuneate, occasionally subrounded, the apex acuminate, often apiculate; lateral veins 7–10 pairs; margin crenate-dentate, the teeth often rather coarse, 5–12 mm. apart.
- Flowers
- Flowers solitary or paired, epedunculate, rose or rose-purple with a whitish spur and whitish pollen.
- Bracts
- Bracts subulate, 2–3 mm. long, inconspicuous.
- Pedicel
- Pedicels 3–6.4 cm. long, slender.
- Calyx
- Lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, 4–7 mm. long, 3–4.5 mm. broad, acute. Lower sepal obliquely and narrowly navicular, 12–15 mm. long, 5–7 mm. deep, abruptly constricted into a 3.2–4.6 cm. long curved filiform spur.
- Corolla
- Dorsal petal suborbicular, 1.2–1.7 cm. long, 1.4–2.1 cm. broad, slightly emarginate at the apex, dorsally with a narrow crest. Lateral united petals 21–26 mm. long; upper petal of each pair oblong-obovate, generally rather asymmetrical, or kidney-shaped, 1.2–2.5 cm. long, 1–1.4 cm. broad; lower petal of each pair broadly oval or obovate, 1.8–2.1 cm. long, 1–1.3 cm. broad, distally with a slight emargination along the inner margin.
- Ovary
- Ovary glabrous.
- Fruits
- Fruit unknown.
- Figures
- Fig. 3/21, p. 6.
- Habitat
- In upland rain-forest, generally in deeply shaded places, on banks and along streams; 1300–2400 m.
- Distribution
- T6 not known elsewhere
Native to:
Tanzania
Impatiens kentrodonta Gilg appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 114 (1909)
Accepted by
- Grey-Wilson, C. (1982). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Balsaminaceae: 1-76.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Grey-Wilson, C. (1982). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Balsaminaceae: 1-76.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Grey-Wilson, Impat. Afr.: 119, fig. 63, pl. 17 (1980).
- Gilg in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 43: 114 (1909)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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