Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India

KONICKAL MAMBETTA PRABHUKUMAR; RAVEENDRAN JAGADEESAN; GOPALAKRISHNAN PRASAD; BHAGAVATHI AMMA NATARAJAN ACHARI NAGARAJ; VANNARATTA VEETTIL NAVEEN KUMAR; BHASKAR VEERALINGA; INDIRA BALACHANDRAN

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.296.3.7

Issue: Vol. 296 No. 3: 20 February 2017

Type: Article

Published: 2017-02-20

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.296.3.7

Page range: 281–286

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**Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India**

KONICKAL MAMBETTA PRABHUKUMAR⁺⁻
RAVEENDRAN JAGADEESAN⁺⁻
GOPALAKRISHNAN PRASAD⁺⁻
BHAGAVATHI AMMA NATARAJAN ACHARI NAGARAJ⁺⁻
VANNARATTA VEETTIL NAVEEN KUMAR⁺⁻
BHASKAR VEERALINGA⁺⁻
INDIRA BALACHANDRAN⁺⁻

Plant Systematics and Genetic Resources Division, Centre for Medicinal Plants Research, Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Kerala, India

Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India& Wildlife Warden, Munnar Division, Kerala, India.

Divisional Forest Officer, Mankulam Forest Division, Munnar, Idukki, Kerala, India

Post Graduate & Research Department of Botany, S.N.M. College, Maliankara, Ernakulam, Kerala, India

Botanical Garden & Herbarium, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore–560 065, India

Plant Systematics and Genetic Resources Division, Centre for Medicinal Plants Research, Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Kerala, India

Eravikulam National Park Idukki India New species Western Ghats Eudicots

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Abstract

Two new taxa of Impatiens viz. I. mankulamensis sp. nov. and I. panduranganii sp. nov. (Balsaminaceae), are described from the southern Western Ghats, India. Notes on description, distribution, morphological variation and conservation status accompany each description, along with colour photographs.