The genus Impatiens Linnaeus (1753: 937) belongs to the family Balsaminaceae and comprises of about 1107 accepted species all over the world (POWO 2024). The genus is mainly distributed to south-east Asia, tropical Africa and Madagascar (Yu 2012). In India, the genus Impatiens consists of 340 taxa (314 species and 26 varieties/subspecies), mainly distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, the neighbouring North-Eastern states and the Western Ghats (Prabhukumar et al. 2022, Borah et al. 2022, Richard & Ravichandran, 2023, Khanal et al. 2023, Tiwari 2023).