• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens malabarica J.G. Klein ex Wight & Arn.; Impatiens arnottiana Miq. Ex Hook.f. & Thompson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Impatiens diversifolia B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along the slopes of Western ghats in damp, moist areas
• Comments / notes : Rare in marshy locations
• Key identification features : An annual herb with rose-coloured flowers
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Udupi district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Konkan
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(1) 23-80. ; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
• 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 diversifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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