• 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 fruticosa Lesch. ex DC.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : Occasional on sun-exposed ravines with perennial streams along shola forest up to 1200 m.
• Key identification features : Small shrub with pink flowers
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore 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 fruticosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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