• 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
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Shola forests and on moist rocks in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Epiphyte on tree trunks and on moist rocks
• Key identification features : Succulent epiphyte with swollen stems and internodes
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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 jerdoniae. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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