• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens setosa Hook.f. & Thomson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Along margins of evergreen forests. Usually under the canopy of huge trees but also occurs in open plains; often grows in association with I.dasysperma, 500 – 1000m.
• Key identification features : Annual herb; stems procumbent at base. Leaves serrate and long-glandular-ciliate. Corolla bright red or purple; wings subequally 2-lobed. Capsule oblong, glabrous. Seeds hairy.
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Collection Nos : Meebold 10712 (K), KFP 9649, KFP 12203
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(1) 23-80; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 gardneriana. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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