• 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 stocksii Hook.f. & Thomson
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : At elevations 700 - 1600m. Chromosome No.: 2n=20 (Bhaskar & Razi, 1972 -73); 2n=14 (Bhaskar, 1976, 1980).
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Collection Nos : KFP 8801, KFP 12080
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• 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; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Janarthanam & Dessai, 2011-Rheedea, Vol. 21(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 stocksii. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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