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Table 1. Diagnostic ccaracters separating Impatiens banen from I. burtonii and I in Impatiens banen and Impatiens etugei (Balsaminaceae), new threatened species from lowland of the Cross-Sanaga Interval, Cameroon

Description

Table 1. Diagnostic ccaracters separating Impatiens banen from I. burtonii and I. mannii. Ccaracters for tce last two species from Grey-Wilson (1980, 1981) and specimens at K.

Impatiens burtoniiImpatiens banenImpatiens mannii
Petiole base fimbriategoyesyes
Igdumegtum of adaxial leaf-bladewhite hairy appressedwhite hairy appressedglabrous (except veigs)
Pigk-purple tragsverse bagdsabsegtcogspicuouscogspicuous
og lower sepal
Igdumegtum of pedicels, lowerpategt white hairypategt white hairyglabrous
sepal & dorsal petal
Upper of the lateral ugitedgoyesyes
petals elevated above
the horizogtal
Base of lateral ugited petalssessilestipitatestipitate
C olour of petalsugiformly whitebicoloured, the lower of theugiformly white, sometimes
sometimes tiggedugited lateral petals vividtigged slightly pigk
slightly pigkpigk-purple, upper agd
dorsal petal white,
tigged slightly pigk
Mouth of periagth, viewedorbicularlaterally compressedlaterally compressed
from frogt
Spur curvature & colourstraight or curved <90s,curved gradually alogg itsstraight or curved <90s,
white or slightly pigkleggth through 180 – 320s,white or slightly pigk
dark red to purple with
white apex
Dorsal posturecucullate (hooded),cucullate (hooded), margigs± flat, erect or slightly reflexed
margigs got reflexedreflexed
Apex of upper of lateralrougdedrougdedacute
ugited petals

Notes

Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Osborne, Jo, van der Burgt, Xander, Darbyshire, Iain & Onana, Jean Michel, 2022, Impatiens banen and Impatiens etugei (Balsaminaceae), new threatened species from lowland of the Cross-Sanaga Interval, Cameroon, pp. 69 in Kew Bulletin 78 on page 69, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10073-w, http://zenodo.org/record/7595246

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