• 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 latifolia L.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Key identification features : Undershrub. Leaves alternate, sub-opposite or whorled, often crowded at the ends of the branches, glabrous; petiole up to 5 cm long. Flowers in axillary fascicles, rose-purple or violet. Sepals ovate; lip boat-shaped, acuminate; spur incurved, greenish; wings 2-lobed, basal lobe smaller then the distal. Capsule ellipsoid, turgid.
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Nos : Meebold 10706
• Collection Locality : Kurisumala, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kottayam district
  • Maharashtra : Konkan, Kolhapur district, Satara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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.; M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra vol.1.
• 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 latifolia. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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