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Impatiens mirabilis Hook.f.

Balsaminaceae · Thailand, Malaya

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Impatiens mirabilis Hook.f.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Hook.fil.

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About the genus · Impatiens

Impatiens is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Together with the genus Hydrocera, Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Impatiens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 12 of the 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeThailand, Malaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker6.583, 100.2 · in the densest population, 13 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“caudex subshrub or shrub” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 238 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 13 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Impatiens 61 in the reference

Impatiens arguta Impatiens arguta Balsaminaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoImpatiens aurella Impatiens aurella Pale yellow jewelweed Photo: CC BY, Alina MartinImpatiens auricoma Impatiens auricoma Balsaminaceae Photo: CC BY, Charlène SelvaImpatiens balfourii Impatiens balfourii Balfour's touch-me-not Photo: CC0, author not statedImpatiens balsamina Impatiens balsamina Balsam Photo: CC BY, Franz AnthonyImpatiens bicolor Impatiens bicolor Balsaminaceae Photo: CC BY, Jeffrey Lee (he/him/his) Impatiens briartii Balsaminaceae Impatiens burtonii Impatiens burtonii Balsaminaceae Photo: CC BY, Matt BenjaminImpatiens campanulata Impatiens campanulata Balsaminaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulmathi VinodImpatiens capensis Impatiens capensis Orange balsam Photo: CC BY, Gavin SlaterImpatiens chinensis Impatiens chinensis Chinese Balsam Photo: CC0, author not stated Impatiens cinnabarina Balsaminaceae all 62 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Balsaminaceae
Described by
Hook.f.
Native to
Thailand, Malaya
Wild records
13 in range · 4 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 4193392 is Impatiens mirabilis Hook.fil.; the page links Kew's Impatiens mirabilis Hook.f., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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