• Family : BALSAMINACEAE
  (Balsam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GUL-MEHNDI FAMILY (गुलमेंहदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BALSAMINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Impatiens ramosissima Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Impatiens tomentosa B.Heyne
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Water logged places
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Key identification features : Annual herb that grows in boggy places
• Flower, Fruit : June-September
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India 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 tomentosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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