• 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 pulcherrima Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collection Nos : CJS 14765
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(1) 23-80; 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 pulcherrima. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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