• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens anamallayensis Bedd.; Impatiens circaeoides Turcz.; Impatiens microtheca Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional along stream banks of higher elevation.
• Key identification features : Small slender herb with pink flowers
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collection Nos : Barnes 1969 , CJS 7474
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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 goughii. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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