taxonID	type	description	language	source
3E4EC8E4DF715B51B0C9DCBC6AF2BCA3.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3	en	Wang, Meizhen, Lin, Jiedong, Li, Boheng, Li, Junlong, Jin, Xinjie, Li, Pan (2026): Impatiens tainingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from southeastern China. PhytoKeys 269: 235-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.173115
3E4EC8E4DF715B51B0C9DCBC6AF2BCA3.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Impatiens tainingensis is similar to I. platysepala, I. kuocangshanica and I. huangyanensis subsp. attenuata in pinkish purple flowers. But I. tainingensis differs from I. platysepala by its bracts green, persistent, linear-lanceolate, 1 – 2 mm long; lower sepal subsaccate-funnelform, spur 1.5 – 1.8 cm long. I. tainingensis is distinct from I. kuocangshanica and I. huangyanensis subsp. attenuata in having lower sepal subsaccate-funnelform, spur 1.5 – 1.8 cm long; lateral sepals suborbicular, callous, 6 – 8 × 5 – 8 mm; capsules fusiform, 1.5 – 2.0 cm long and seeds 2.0 × 1.0 mm.	en	Wang, Meizhen, Lin, Jiedong, Li, Boheng, Li, Junlong, Jin, Xinjie, Li, Pan (2026): Impatiens tainingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from southeastern China. PhytoKeys 269: 235-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.173115
3E4EC8E4DF715B51B0C9DCBC6AF2BCA3.taxon	description	Description. Annual herb, 40 – 80 cm tall, glabrous. Root fibrous. Stem erect or ascending in lower part, slender and fleshy, simple, or laxly branched. Leaves alternate; petiole 2 – 4 cm long; blade papery, pale green, ovate-elliptic, 5 – 11 × 2 – 3.5 cm, lateral veins 5 – 7 pairs, curved, base cuneate, attenuate into petiole, margin crenate-serrate or crenate, teeth mucronulate, apex caudate-acuminate; Inflorescences axillary, 1 – 3 - flowered; peduncles 1 – 2 cm long. Pedicels 1.5 – 2.5 cm long, bracteate at base; bracts persistent, linear-lanceolate, 1 – 2 mm long, apex shortly acute. Flowers pink-purple, ca. 3 cm deep. Lateral sepals 2, suborbicular, 6 – 8 × 5 – 8 mm, callous, margin entire, apex green long mucronulate, abaxial midvein narrowly carinate. Lower sepal purple striate, 1.9 – 2.4 cm deep, subsaccate-funnelform, gradually narrowed into an incurved spur; spur 1.5 – 1.8 cm long; mouth vertical, ca. 1.5 – 1.7 cm wide. Upper petal oblate, 1.2 – 1.3 × 1.7 – 1.9 cm, apex emarginate, shortly rostellate, abaxial midvein cristate; lateral united petals, shortly petiolate, 2 - lobed; basal lobes obovate to dolabriform, small, 0.9 – 1.0 × 0.6 – 0.7 cm, apex obtuse; distal lobes dolabriform, large, 2.0 – 2.2 × 1.2 – 1.4 cm, apex obtuse or emarginate; auricle inflexed, yellow; Filaments linear, anthers ovoid, apex obtuse. Ovary erect, fusiform, ca. 5 mm long. Capsule fusiform or linear-cylindric, 1.5 – 2.0 cm long; seeds many, yellowish brown, ovoid-oblong, 2.0 × 1.0 mm, tuberculate.	en	Wang, Meizhen, Lin, Jiedong, Li, Boheng, Li, Junlong, Jin, Xinjie, Li, Pan (2026): Impatiens tainingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from southeastern China. PhytoKeys 269: 235-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.173115
3E4EC8E4DF715B51B0C9DCBC6AF2BCA3.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Taining, Fujian, southeastern China; known only from the type of location (Fig. 1). Moist places in valleys of Danxia landform; 300 – 400 m.	en	Wang, Meizhen, Lin, Jiedong, Li, Boheng, Li, Junlong, Jin, Xinjie, Li, Pan (2026): Impatiens tainingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from southeastern China. PhytoKeys 269: 235-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.173115
