Impatiens balfourii
Hook.fil. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Impatiens balfourii's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility14 893 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Impatiens balfourii is a species of the genus Impatiens known by the common names Balfour's touch-me-not, Kashmir balsam, and poor man's orchid. It belongs to the family Balsaminaceae.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology14
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment10
Physiology & chemistry5
Other traits1
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Impatiens balfourii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Impatiens balfourii carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 149×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 74×CCDB · book-ipcn66 · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · Cave1958 +1
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type14 893 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions48 of 83 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 54 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 21 |
| MAlocation not on record | 16 |
| Barcelona, ES | 12 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 10 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 9 |
| GMBAlocation not on record | 9 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 9 |
| BClocation not on record | 7 |
| Otaru, JP | 7 |
| QAUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Riverside, US | 7 |
| Odawara, JP | 6 |
| Berlin, DE | 6 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 6 |
| Salamanca, ES | 6 |
| València, ES | 6 |
| Montréal, CA | 6 |
| Vitoria, ES | 6 |
| Denver, US | 5 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 5 |
| Madison, US | 5 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 5 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 5 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 4 |
| Corvallis, US | 4 |
| Granada, ES | 4 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Hobart, AU | 4 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 4 |
| Portland, US | 3 |
| Pamplona, ES | 3 |
| St. Paul, US | 3 |
| Madrid, ES | 3 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Claremont, US | 3 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| Alicante, ES | 2 |
| Tilburg, NL | 2 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 2 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Orto botanico dell'Università degli Studi di Catanialocation not on record | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 2 |
| LDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Armidale, AU | 2 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| Bothell, US | 1 |
| Adelaide, AU | 1 |
| Henry Brockhouse Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Whitewater, US | 1 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 1 |
| Sendai, JP | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 1 |
| Hope Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 1 |
| Salzburg, AT | 1 |
| Mlocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 1 |
| San Jose, US | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Glarus, CH | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Impatiens balfourii was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.