• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens rosmarinifolia Retz; Balsamina oppositifolia (L.) DC; Balsamina rosmarinifolia (Retz.) DC.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Impatiens oppositifolia L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare. Found growing in open grasslands; often forming large scattered colonies
• Key identification features : A slender annual; stem faccid. Leaves opposite, subsessile. Flowers pink, pale mauve, glabrous. Sepals linear; lip conical, spur short incurved. Capsule up to 1.2 cm long, ellipsoid
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Collection Nos : Talbot 2077
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• Native : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(1) 23-80; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 oppositifolia. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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