New Guinea Impatiens
Impatiens hawkeri
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Kerala
How to identify New Guinea Impatiens
Identify New Guinea Impatiens by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Cultivated New Guinea impatiens, large showy flowers.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Alternate.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Kerala.
- Confirm it sits within the Balsaminaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is New Guinea Impatiens.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Impatiens hawkeri
- Genus
- Impatiens
- Family
- Balsaminaceae
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Kerala
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- AlternaterecordedOne leaf per node, arranged in a spiral or zigzag up the stem.
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for New Guinea Impatiens itself; the rest are typical of the Balsaminaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Solitary
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for New Guinea Impatiens itself; the rest are typical of the Balsaminaceae family — flowering plants only.
About New Guinea Impatiens
New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri) belongs to the Balsaminaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka and Kerala.
Balsaminaceae
Balsam/Touch-me-not family
New Guinea Impatiens belongs to the Balsaminaceae family.
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