• 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) : Not found in Plant list
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : High altitudes of Wyanad forest. This is a distinct species, not related to any in the whole Section, but it is included in the Section ‘Sub-umbellatae’ because of sub-umbellate inflorescence.
• Key identification features : Decumbent annual runner, rooting at nodes; leaf base cordate; inflorescence sub-umbellate; flowers cleistogamous, dull white; lip is cymbiform, white; spur present, 1cm long, ascending; wing petal 2-lobed, upper lobe oblong, pinkish, lower lobe ovate, purplish at the base of distal lobe there are two purplish dot like outgrowths, but no dorsal auricle. Capsule ellipsoidal, glabrous, greenish yellow
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Collector(s) Name : Laly Joseph & V Bhaskar
• Collection Date : 11-08-2002
• Collection Nos : 836 (b) (UASB) Holotype
• Collection Locality : Wayanad District, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Kerala
• World Distribution : India
• Literature : V. Bhaskar (2012). Taxonomic Monograph on Impatiens L. (Balsaminaceae) of Western Ghats, South India – the key genus for Endemism. Centre for Plant Taxonomic Studies, Bangalore. pp.260; 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 wynadensis. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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