Impatiens tenella B. Heyne ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 140)

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 : 174

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.268.3.1
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scientific name	Impatiens tenella B. Heyne ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 140)
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25. Impatiens tenella B. Heyne ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 140) View in CoL .

Type citation:—“ Heyne! in Wall.! L. n. 4746. a.”

Type:— INDIA. Without precise locality, 22 September 1816, Herb. Heyne, Wallich cat. n. 4746 [a] (lectotype K001039809 !, designated here; isolectotype CAL!) .

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

Notes:— Wight & Arnott (1834) described Impatiens tenella based on the collections of Wallich cat. n. 4746 [a]. Two specimens belonging to Herb. Heyne, Wallich cat. n. 4746 [a] are now extant (CAL and K001039809). The best preserved specimen, K001039809, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.