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  1. Family: Balsaminaceae A.Rich.
    1. Genus: Impatiens Riv. ex L.

      1. Impatiens tricornis Lindl.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Pakistan to S. Tibet and NW. India.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya

    Introduced into:

    Austria, Czechoslovakia

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Impatiens tricornis Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Jan 1, 2017 Lace, J.H. [s.n.], India K000608280
    Wallich, N. [s.n.], Nepal Impatiens praetermissa K000815912

    Bibliography

    First published in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: t. 9 (1840)

    Accepted by

    • Gogoi, R., Borah, S., Dash, S.S. & Singh, P. (2018). Balsams of Eastern Himalaya - A regional revision: 1-215. Botanical Survey of India.
    • Akiyama, S. & Ohba, H. (2016). Studies in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) of Nepal 3. Impatiens scabrida and allied species Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series B (Botany) 42: 121-130.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions

    • Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
    • Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.
    • Chakrabarty, T. (2009). A checklist of the genus Impatiens L. (Balsaminaceae) for Sikkim state Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 33: 205-215.
    • Wu, Z., Raven, P.H. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2007). Flora of China 12: 1-534. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

    Sources

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0