Impatiens dasysperma Wight in Madras J. Lit. Sci. 1,5: 7, t. 2. 1837 & Icon. t. 742. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 457. 1874.

Erect flaccid herbs, 30 - 60 cm high, branching sometimes. Leaves alternate, elliptic or ovate, acuminate, crenate, 4 - 8 x 1.5 - 4 cm, sparsely hairy above, glabrous below; petioles 0.8 - 2 cm long, often with stipitate glands. Flowers axillary, usually solitary or binate, pink; pedicels slender, decurved, 1 - 2.2 cm long. Lateral sepals minute, ovate. Lip cymbiform; spur up to 1.5 cm long, incurved, hairy. Standard obcordate, cuspidate. Wings divergently bilobed; lobes subequal, obovate, retuse. Capsules obliquely ovoid, ca 8 mm long, turgid in the middle, glabrous; seeds subglobose, papillose.

Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Nov.

Distrib. India: W. Ghats at lower elevations up to 900 m. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.