Impatiens purpurea Hand.-Mazz.

Plants annual, 40-70 cm tall, glabrous or sparsely stipitate glandular, with short, supporting roots. Stem erect, robust, simple or many branched. Leaves alternate, or crowded at upper parts of stem and branches and subverticillate, lower leaves long petiolate, upper leaves subsessile; leaf blade elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, 5-15 × 3.5-4.5 cm, membranous, setose between teeth, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, curved, with stipitate glands, base cuneate, margin densely crenate, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences in upper leaf axils, racemose, 4-6(-8)-flowered; peduncles shorter than leaves, 4-8 cm. Pedicels 1-2.5 cm, slender, bracteate at base; bracts persistent, broadly ovate or orbicular, 3-5 × 2-3 mm, membranous, hyaline, apex mucronulate. Flowers purple, 3.5-5 cm deep. Lateral sepals 2, broadly ovate, 4-5 mm, base subcordate, apex mucronulate. Lower sepal obliquely funnelform, limb ca. 1.5 cm deep, gradually narrowed into a mid-curved spur ca. 1.2 cm; mouth oblique, ca. 3 mm, mucronulate. Upper petal cucullate, orbicular, 8-9 mm, apex mucronulate, abaxial midvein thickened, carinate; lateral united petals not clawed, ca. 2 cm, 2-lobed; basal lobes obovate; distal lobes lanceolate, ca. as long as basal lobes. Filaments ligulate; anthers orbicular, apex obtuse. Ovary fusiform. Capsule linear-cylindric, 2.5-3 cm. Seeds many (ca. 15), brown, oblong, 3-4 mm, smooth. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Oct.

NW Yunnan.

● Forest understories, by streams in valleys; 2400-3300 m.

Impatiens purpurea adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Balsaminaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Ericales. Spesies Impatiens purpurea sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Impatiens. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Hand.-Mazz..

Impatiens purpurea là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bóng nước. Loài này được Hand.-Mazz. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1933.

紫花凤仙花（学名：Impatiens purpurea）为凤仙花科凤仙花属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南等地，生长于海拔2,450米至3,300米的地区，多生于山谷、林下和溪边，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。