Herbarium JCB

Impatiens scapiflora Heyne ex Roxb.

Family : BALSAMINACEAE
(Balsam Family)
Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
Synonym(s) : Impatiens rivalis Wight; Impatiens verrucosa Bedd; Impatiens pooyamkuttiensis; Impatiens manohara
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Grows on dripping-wet rocks
Comments / notes : Wet rocks in evergreen forests and grasslands. Chromosome No.: 2n=20 (Krishnaswamy et al.,1969); 2n=12 (Bhaskar, 1976); 2n=14, 16, 20 (Bhaskar, 1980).
Key identification features : Scapigerous herb. Flowers pink; wing petal 3-lobed.
Flower, Fruit : June-November
Collection Nos : KFP 11973, KFP 12189
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
Native : India
Endemism : Western Ghats
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Janarthanam &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.
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 scapiflora. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.