• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens rosea Lindl. ; Impatiens balsamina var. Brevicalcarata T.Cooke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Impatiens rosea Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist soils, plains and ghats
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Belagavi district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
• Native : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Chennaiah, E., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(1) 23-80. ; Subash Chandran M.D & Ramachandra T.V et al, 2012- Lateritic plateau study of U.Kannada
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Impatiens balsamina var. rosea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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