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+Characters
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+Impatiens minnamparaensis
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+Impatiens sasidharanii
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+I. rupicola
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+Leaves |
+Ovate-Oblong pubescent, glandular trichome present |
+Linear-lanceolate, glabrous, trichomes absent |
+Ovate-oblong or linear |
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+Inflorescence |
+1 or 2 flower per axil |
+Flowers 2–4 per axils |
+3–5 per axil |
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+Flower |
+8–15 × 6–8 mm, milky white to pinkish white with a prominent blotch at the throat |
+12–16 × 8–10 mm, dull white, yellow or bluish tinged white with no spots at the throat |
+7–9 × 5–6 mm, dull white or white with 2 pink spots at the throat |
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+Basal lobe ovate, obtuse to acute at apex, dull white to yellow or pale |
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+Basal lobe roughly conical, white |
+pink |
+Basal lobe ovate, apex round, pink |
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+Standard keel petal |
+Distal lobe dolabriform or hatchet |
+to purple; Distal lobe ovate or |
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+shaped, white |
+Distal lobe orbicular or obovate, rounded at apex, dull white to yellow or pale pink |
+obovate, apex round |
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+Dorsal petal |
+1.5–2 ×1.5–2 mm, ovate-ovoid, beak at the base prominent, white to pink; keel absent or often faintly present. |
+5.5–6.5 ×5–6 mm, broadly ovate, beak at the base not prominent or absent, dull white to yellow to pink, keel mucronate |
+6.5–7.5 ×4–5 mm, broadly ovate, dull white to yellow to pink, keel mucronate |
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+Lower sepal |
+Saccate with beaked apex, white with red stripes |
+Boat shaped, pink without any stripes |
+Dolabriform, pink without stripes |
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+Lateral sepal |
+2;5–3 × 0.5.5 mm, linear-falcate, pinkish white |
+3.5–6 × ca. 0.5–0.75 mm, linear lanceolate, glabrous, pale green, pale yellow or purple |
+6–10 mm long, glabrous |
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+Capsule |
+Ovate with seeds 1–2 per capsule |
+Long ellipsoidal beaked, glabrous, seeds 10 per capsule |
+Ellipsoidal, many seeds |
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+Anther |
+Yellow |
+White |
+Pink |
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+Pollen |
+4 colpate square |
+3 colpate spherical |
+3 colpate spherical |
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