• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Impatiens chinensis L.
• Vernacular name : Machinga, Oanapoovu, Pily, Paily (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common on rocky slopes of mid-elevations and on sun-exposed marshes.
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district, Sundergarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
• Native : China, Himalayas
• World Distribution : Himalayas, India, Myanmar, China, Bangladesh, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 chinensis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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