• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Thottachinungi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Stream banks of shola forests
• Comments / notes : Marshy places in evergreen forests, often along roadsides
• Key identification features : Glaucous white stem
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 10/02/1972
• Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 1784; R.R.Rao 14001; Barnes 1970
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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 cuspidata. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.

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