Impatiens paradoxa C. S. Zhu & H. W. Yang

Plants annual, 30-65 cm tall, glabrous. Stem erect or basally ascending, striate when dry, succulent, branched, lower nodes swollen, with many fibrous roots. Leaves alternate, petiolate, crowded in upper part of stem; leaf blade pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 6-12 × 3-5.8 cm, membranous, with 2-4 pairs of stipitate basal glands, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, curved, base cuneate, margin coarsely crenate or crenate-serrate, teeth mucronulate, apex shortly acute or acuminate. Inflorescences in upper leaf axils, 1-flowered. Pedicels 1-1.5 cm, slightly elongate at fruiting, slender, bracteate above middle; bracts persistent, linear, 1.5-2.5 mm, or ovate, 4-5.5 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers yellow, 2.5-3 cm deep. Lateral sepals 2, purple spotted, obliquely ovate or suborbicular, 8-10 × 8-9 mm, abaxial midvein thickened, broadly carinate, inequilateral, margin 4(or 5)-denticulate on one side, apex acute. Lower sepal saccate, ca. 3 cm deep, abruptly constricted into 2 or 3 spurs; spurs incurved, 3.5-5 mm, 2-lobed, appearing as if 4-6 spurs; mouth oblique, 1.8-2 cm, tip acuminate. Upper petal suborbicular, 1-1.2 × 1.3-1.4 cm, base broadly cuneate, apex rounded, rostellate, abaxial midvein thickened, cristate at middle; lateral united petals clawed, 2.8-3 cm, 2-lobed; basal lobes oblong, small, 4.5-6 × ca. 4 mm, apex rounded, with a long, filamentous hair 6-7 mm; distal lobes dolabriform, 2.2-2.5 × 1.1-3 mm, apex acute, without a filamentous hair; auricle broad. Filaments linear; anthers ovoid, apex obtuse. Ovary fusiform, 4-5 mm. Capsule linear-cylindric, 3-4 cm. Seeds many, brown, oblong-globose, ca. 2 mm, verruculose. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.

Henan.

● Forest margins, shaded moist places by streams in valleys; 1400-1800 m.

Impatiens paradoxa adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Balsaminaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Ericales. Spesies Impatiens paradoxa sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Impatiens. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh C.S.Zhu & H.W.Yang.

Impatiens paradoxa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bóng nước. Loài này được C.S. Zhu & H.W. Yang mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1994.

奇异凤仙花（学名：Impatiens paradoxa）为凤仙花科凤仙花属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的河南等地，生长于海拔1,450米至1,800米的地区，一般生于山谷、林缘以及溪边阴湿处，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。