Impatiens viridiflora Wight (1837: 9)

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2016, Typification of thirty six names of thirty five recognized taxa in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae), endemic to Western Ghats, Phytotaxa 268 (3), pp. 167-180 : 175

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scientific name	Impatiens viridiflora Wight (1837: 9)
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32. Impatiens viridiflora Wight (1837: 9) View in CoL .

Type citation:—“Hab. Shevagerry on the highest part of the hills, about four thousand five hundred feet of elevation, forming large masses on the branches of trees.”

Type:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Shevagerry [Sivagiri] hills, s.d., Wight 348 (lectotype K 000694879!, designated here).

Residual syntypes: — INDIA. Without precise locality, s.d., Herb. Griffith, Wight 310 ( K000694878 !) ; Without precise locality, s.d., Wight s.n. ( K000694880 !) .

Distribution:— India, endemic and rare (Tamil Nadu).

Notes:— Impatiens viridiflora was formally described by Wight (1837) based on plants collected from Shevagerry hills. At present, only three herbarium sheets of I. viridiflora collected by Wight are extant at K (K000694878- 000694880). The better preserved specimen, K000694879, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue and also in having drawing of floral parts on the sheet by J.D. Hooker while working on Flora of British India.