1. Impantiens balsamina L.
CLASSIFICATION
Kingdom: Plantae
Divisio: Magnoliophyta
Classis: Magnoliopsida
Ordo: Ericales
Familia: Balsaminaceae
Genus: Impatiens
Species: Impatiens balsamina L.
CHARACTERISTIC
Conspicuous red flower narrow leaf
BENEFIT
Prevent cancer cell
Leaves, Flower and Branch Impatiens balsamina L.
(Hidayat, Abdurrahman. 2017)
Flower anatomy of Impatiens balsaminaceae
DESCRIPTION
Habit and leaf form
Impatiens balsamina is a ANNUAL growing to 0.6 m (2ft) by 0.5 m (1ft 8in) at a medium rate. It is frost tender. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and can grow in heavy clay soil. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers moist soil.
Herbs; with watery juice. ‘Normal’ plants to switch-plants (generally with translucent stems, rarely almost shrubby). Plants more or less succulent to non-succulent. Annual, or perennial; with a basal aggregation of leaves, or without conspicuous aggregations of leaves. Helophytic, or mesophytic. Leaves medium-sized; alternate, or opposite, or whorled; when alternate, spiral; when whorled, 3 per whorl; flat; petiolate; non-sheathing; simple; epulvinate. Lamina entire; acicular to linear, or oblong to ovate; pinnately veined; cross-venulate. Leaves exstipulate (as generally interpreted), or stipulate. Stipules if detectable, represented by glands. Lamina margins entire, or crenate, or serrate.
Leaf anatomy
The leaf lamina dorsiventral. Hydathodes commonly present (in te leaf teeth). Stomata present; anomocytic, or anisocytic. Hairs usually absent. The mesophyll containing mucilage cells, or not containing mucilage cells; containing crystals. The crystals raphides (the abundance of raphide sacs - these often also containing mucilage - here and in the cortex being characteristic of the family). Minor leaf veins with phloem transfer cells (Impatiens).
Axial (stem, wood) anatomy
Young stems with solid internodes, or with hollow internodes. Secretory cavities absent (but large cells with mucilaginous contents in the ground parenchyma). Nodes unilacunar. Primary vascular tissues comprising a ring of bundles; collateral. Internal phloem absent. Cortical bundles absent. Medullary bundles absent. Secondary thickening more or less absent to developing from a conventional cambial ring (the interfascicular cambium giving rise internally only to thin-walled ground tissue, without vessels). The axial xylem with vessels.
The vessel end-walls simple.
Reproductive type, pollination
Unisexual flowers absent. Plants hermaphrodite. Pollination entomophilous; mechanism conspicuously specialized (as regards the androecium/gynoecium relationship).
Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology
Flowers solitary, or aggregated in ‘inflorescences’; when aggregated, in cymes. The ultimate inflorescence units cymose. Inflorescences or flowers axillary; small, sometimes umbelliform cymes, or the flowers solitary. Flowers bracteate; bracteolate, or ebracteolate; medium-sized; very irregular; zygomorphic; resupinate (often, the anterior organs appearing posterior and the large, spurred posterior sepal appearing anterior in the mature flower), or not resupinate. The floral irregularity involving the perianth and involving the androecium. Flowers basically 5 merous; cyclic; tetracyclic. Free hypanthium absent. Hypogynous disk absent (Watson, Dallwitz. 1992).
DISTRIBUTION
Tropic areas
LOCATION
STATUS
Exist
REFERENCE
Josep, Wong. 2009. Balsaminaceae. [Online]. Available in: https://www.flickr.com/photos
Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The families of Flowering Plants: descriptions,
illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 24th November 2019. delta
intkey.com’ .
Hidayat, Topik & Abdurrahman, Eman. 2017. Keanekaragaman Tumbuhan Biji di Kampus UPI
Bandung. Bandung. UPI Press.
2. Impatiens platypetala Lind.
CLASSIFICATION
Kingdom: Plantae
Divisio: Magnoliphyta
Classis: Magnoliopsida
Ordo: Geraniales
Familia: Balsaminaceae
Genus: Impatiens
Species: Impatiens platypetala Lindl.
Common name: Pacar Banyu
CHARACTERISTIC
A bit wide leaf with various color of flower
BENEFIT
Medicine for rheumatic and menstruation
Impatiens platypetala Lindl.
(Hidayat & Topik, 2017)
DESCRIPTION
Impatiens platypetala Lindl. is a perennial herb that can grow up to 30-100 cm tall and it is erect or decumbent. The leaves are arranged 3-whorled but sometimes opposite, ovate to ovate-elliptical, measure 6-11.5 cm x 1-3.5 cm, attenuate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, with shallowly serrate margins and petiole 0.7-2.8 cm long .The flowers are solitary, with slender pedicel and 4-6.5 cm long. The lateral sepals are lance-shaped to ovate, 7-12 mm long and acuminate. The lower sepal is shallowly navicular, 8-12 mm long, abruptly constricted into a curved, with slender spur 20-40 mm long, and whitish or greenish. The petals are flat and obcordate. The dorsal petal measures 11-14 mm x 7-9 mm while the lateral petals are 19-21 mm long and they are shallowly emarginated. The upper pair is slightly smaller than the lower pair. The petal is pink, rose, purple, violet, white, or white with a coloured eye. The capsule is spindle-shaped, smooth, and measures 16-18 mm x 4-5 mm ( USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network-(GRIN), 2015)
DISTRIBUTION
Tropical region
LOCATION
Zone 1 of UPI Botanic Garden
STATUS
Exist
REFERENCES
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network-(GRIN).2015. Impatiens platypetala Lindl. [homepage on the Internet]. Beltsville, Maryland: National Germplasm Resources Laboratory; c2013 [updated 2009 May 13;. Available from: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?19845
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