- Family: Menyanthaceae Dumort.
Nymphoides Ség.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Cosmopolitan.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Aquatic herbs; stems long, petiole-like
- Leaves
- Leaves floating, shortly petiolate, cordate at the base
- Inflorescences
- Flowers bisexual (in Somalia), solitary or clustered at the nodes, subtended by a small bract, 5(–8)-merous
- Corolla
- Corolla white or yellow, with variously fimbriate lobes; tube with tufts of hairs ± halfway up
- Stamens
- Stamens 5(–8), inserted at or below the throat of the corolla
- Ovary
- Ovary with 5 basal glands
- Fruits
- Capsule irregularly dehiscent or indehiscent
- Seeds
- Seeds globose to oval, flattened or convex, smooth to tuberculate.
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan genus of over 50 species.
[FZ]
Menyanthaceae, Barbara Mackinder. Flora Zambesiaca 7:4. 1990
- Habit
- Aquatic herbs, annual or perennial.
- Leaves
- Leaves simple, circular to ovate, with a sinus at the base, in a rosette on the stock, or alternate along floating stolons.
- Flowers
- Flowers clustered at the nodes, pedicellate, subtended by a small bract, 5(8)-merous, sometimes heterostylous, elsewhere sometimes unisexual.
- Fruits
- Capsule developing under water, splitting into valves from base or apex.
- Seeds
- Seeds round to oval, flattened or convex, smooth to tuberculate.
[FTEA]
Menyanthaceae, Christopher Whitehouse. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1996
- Stamens
- Stamens 5(-8), inserted at or below the corolla-throat
- Ovary
- Ovary with 5 basal glands
- Fruits
- Capsule indehiscent or irregularly rupturing
- Seeds
- Seeds round to oval, flattened or convex, smooth to tuberculate.
- Habit
- Aquatic herbs
- Stem
- Stems long, petiole-like
- Leaves
- Leaves floating, shortly petioled, circular to ovate in outline, base with a narrow to wide sinus, margin entire, crenate or dentate
- Flowers
- Flowers bisexual (in East Africa), solitary or fascicled at the nodes, subtended by a small bract, 5(-8)-merous
- Corolla
- Corolla white or yellow; lobes variously fimbriate; tube with short tufts of hairs ± halfway up
Native to:
Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Maryland, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Réunion, Sardegna, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Carolina, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Denmark, Illinois, Kentucky, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuelan Antilles
- Nymphoides aquatica (J.F.Gmel.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides astoniae M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett
- Nymphoides aurantiaca (Dalzell) Kuntze
- Nymphoides balakrishnanii P.Biju, Josekutty, Haneef & Augustine
- Nymphoides beaglensis Aston
- Nymphoides bosseri A.Raynal
- Nymphoides brevipedicellata (Vatke) A.Raynal
- Nymphoides cambodiana (Hance) Tippery
- Nymphoides cordata (Elliott) Fernald
- Nymphoides coreana (H.Lév.) H.Hara
- Nymphoides coronata (Dunn) Chun ex Y.D.Zhou & G.W.Hu
- Nymphoides crenata (F.Muell.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides cristata (Roxb.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides disperma Aston
- Nymphoides elegans A.Raynal
- Nymphoides elliptica Aston
- Nymphoides exiliflora (F.Muell.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides ezannoi Berhaut
- Nymphoides fallax Ornduff
- Nymphoides flaccida L.B.Sm.
- Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides furculifolia Specht
- Nymphoides geminata (R.Br.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides grayana (Griseb.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides guineensis A.Raynal
- Nymphoides hastata (Dop) Kerr
- Nymphoides herzogii A.Galán & G.Navarro
- Nymphoides humboldtiana (Kunth) Kuntze
- Nymphoides humilis A.Raynal
- Nymphoides hydrophylla (Lour.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides krishnakesara K.T.Joseph & Sivar.
- Nymphoides lungtanensis S.P.Li, T.H.Hsieh & Chun C.Lin
- Nymphoides macrosperma K.V.Nair
- Nymphoides microphylla (A.St.-Hil.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides milnei A.Raynal
- Nymphoides minima (F.Muell.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides minor (D.Don ex G.Don) S.Gupta, A.K.Mukh. & M.Mondal
- Nymphoides × montana Aston
- Nymphoides palyi Biju, Josekutty, Haneef & Augustine
- Nymphoides parvifolia (Griseb.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides planosperma Aston
- Nymphoides quadriloba Aston
- Nymphoides rautanenii (N.E.Br.) A.Raynal
- Nymphoides siamensis (Ostenf.) Kerr
- Nymphoides simulans Aston
- Nymphoides sivarajanii K.T.Joseph
- Nymphoides spinulosperma Aston
- Nymphoides spongiosa Aston
- Nymphoides subacuta Aston
- Nymphoides tenuissima A.Raynal
- Nymphoides thunbergiana (Griseb.) Kuntze
- Nymphoides tonkinensis (Dop) P.H.Hô
- Nymphoides triangularis Aston
- Nymphoides verrucosa (R.E.Fr.) A.Galán & G.Navarro
- Nymphoides walshiae R.W.Davis & K.R.Thiele
Nymphoides Ség. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brenan, J.P.M. [8595], Nigeria | 1094.000 | |||
Wild, H. [4119], Zimbabwe | 11167.000 | |||
Bullock, A.A. [2162], Zambia | 11168.000 | |||
Harley, R.M. [16105], Brazil | K001138294 | |||
Harley, R.M. [17438], Brazil | K001138293 | |||
Harley, R.M. [18004], Brazil | K001138292 | |||
Harley, R. [3480], Brazil | K001138297 | |||
Lewis, G.P. [804], Brazil | K001138296 | |||
Polhill, R.M.&D [5246], Botswana | 52388.000 | |||
Santos, T.S. [2251], Brazil | K001138291 | |||
Hind, D.J.N. [38], Brazil | K001138298 | |||
Hind, D.J.N. [38], Brazil | K001138289 | |||
Conceição, A.A. [2309], Brazil | K001138295 | |||
Mattos, L.A. [304], Brazil | K001138290 |
First published in Pl. Veron. 3: 121 (1754)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Brit. Herb. 77 (1756).
Flora Zambesiaca
- in Fl. Afr. Centr., Menyanthaceae: 1–16 (1975).
- in Adansonia, Sér. 2, 14: 227–270, 405–458 (1974)
- A. Raynal in Mitt. Bot. Staatss. München 10: 122–134 (1971)
- Pl. Veron. 3: 121 (1754).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Raynal in Adansonia, sér. 2, 14: 227–270 (1974).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Mackinder in F.Z. 7(4): 51 (1990)
- in F.A.C., Menyanthaceae (1975)
- in Adansonia, sér. 2, 14: 227-270 (1974)
- in Adansonia, sér. 2, 14: 405-458 (1974)
- A. Raynal in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München, 10: 122-134 (1971)
- Pl. Veron. 3: 121 (1754)
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