- Family: Nymphaeaceae Salisb.
Nymphaea L.
[FZ]
Nymphaeaceae, F. A. Mendoça. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Morphology General Habit
- Robust or delicate aquatic herbs, rhizome often tuberous.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves large or medium, floating, emergent or submerged, lamina suborbicular to elliptic, deeply cordate, peltate, palmatinerved.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4 (sometimes appearing more numerous owing to the presence of ± sepaloid petals).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5-numerous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens perigynous; filaments petaloid; anthers obtuse or appendiculate owing to a prolongation of the connective.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
- Carpels numerous, pluriovulate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit fleshy, ripening under water.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds small, surrounded by a pulpy, sack-like aril open at the top.
[FTEA]
Nymphaeaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
- Morphology General Habit
- Delicate to robust aquatic herbs with usually stout often tuberous rhizomes
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves small to large, floating, emergent, or submerged, usually ± round or oval, often slightly to distinctly peltate, cordate, palmately nerved, entire to dentate; stipules present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4 (but ± sepaloid petals can be present), ± green
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5–numerous, inserted at successively higher levels on the ovary, the outermost usually equalling or shorter than the sepals, the innermost shorter and narrower and grading into the stamens
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens numerous, the outer with broad petaloid filaments, all inserted towards the top of the ovary; anthers obtuse or with connective produced as an appendage
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary syncarpous, many-locular with numerous ovules in each locule; stigmatic surfaces radiating from central apical boss of the ovary and with marginal stylar processes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit fleshy or spongy, ripening under water and eventually splitting
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds small, floating due to air-containing sack-like pulpy aril and seed-wall.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves usually ± round to ovate, cordate, palmately nerved; stipules present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5–numerous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Outer stamens with broad petaloid filaments
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary with stigmatic surface radiating from central apical boss and with marginal stylar processes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit ripening under water and eventually splitting
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds small, floating due to air-containing sack-like aril and seed-wall.
- Distribution
- Over 60 species, in both tropical and temperate regions.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Carolina, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Sardegna, Sicilia
Introduced into:
Arizona, Ascension, California, Chile Central, Chile South, Colorado, Cook Is., Fiji, Mauritius, Nevada, New Mexico, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Oregon, Seychelles, Society Is., Utah, Victoria
- Nymphaea abhayana A.Chowdhury & M.Chowdhury
- Nymphaea alba L.
- Nymphaea alexii S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea amazonum Mart. & Zucc.
- Nymphaea ampla (Salisb.) DC.
- Nymphaea atrans S.W.L.Jacobs
- Nymphaea belophylla Trickett
- Nymphaea candida C.Presl
- Nymphaea carpentariae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea conardii Wiersema
- Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny
- Nymphaea dimorpha I.M.Turner
- Nymphaea divaricata Hutch.
- Nymphaea elegans Hook.
- Nymphaea elleniae S.W.L.Jacobs
- Nymphaea gardneriana Planch.
- Nymphaea georginae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea gigantea Hook.
- Nymphaea glandulifera Rodschied
- Nymphaea gracilis Zucc.
- Nymphaea guineensis Schumach. & Thonn.
- Nymphaea hastifolia Domin
- Nymphaea heudelotii Planch.
- Nymphaea immutabilis S.W.L.Jacobs
- Nymphaea jacobsii Hellq.
- Nymphaea jamesoniana Planch.
- Nymphaea kimberleyensis (S.W.L.Jacobs) S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea lasiophylla Mart. & Zucc.
- Nymphaea leibergii (Morong) Rydb.
- Nymphaea lingulata Wiersema
- Nymphaea loriana Wiersema, Hellq. & Borsch
- Nymphaea lotus L.
- Nymphaea lukei S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea macrosperma Merr. & L.M.Perry
- Nymphaea maculata Schumach. & Thonn.
- Nymphaea malabarica Poir.
- Nymphaea manipurensis Asharani & Biseshwori
- Nymphaea mexicana Zucc.
- Nymphaea micrantha Guill. & Perr.
- Nymphaea noelae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f.
- Nymphaea novogranatensis Wiersema
- Nymphaea odorata Aiton
- Nymphaea ondinea Löhne, Wiersema & Borsch
- Nymphaea oxypetala Planch.
- Nymphaea potamophila Wiersema
- Nymphaea prolifera Wiersema
- Nymphaea pubescens Willd.
- Nymphaea pulchella DC.
- Nymphaea × rosea (Sims) Sweet
- Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews
- Nymphaea rudgeana G.Mey.
- Nymphaea siamensis Puripany.
- Nymphaea stuhlmannii (Engl.) Schweinf. & Gilg
- Nymphaea sulphurea Gilg
- Nymphaea tenerinervia Casp.
- Nymphaea tenuinervia Casp.
- Nymphaea tetragona Georgi
- Nymphaea thermarum Eb.Fisch.
- Nymphaea × thiona D.B.Ward
- Nymphaea vanildae C.T.Lima & Giul.
- Nymphaea vaporalis S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
- Nymphaea violacea Lehm.
Nymphaea L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 510 (1753)
Accepted by
- Ansari, R. & Jeeja, G. (2009). Waterlilies in India. Taxonomy and cultivation of the genus Nymphaea L. (Nymphaeaceae): 1-86. Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy.
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 41: 351 (1908).
- —F.T.A. 1: 52
Flora Zambesiaca
- Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 360 (1808) nom. conserv.
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 227 (1754) emend
- Sp. Pl. 1: 510 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Wiersema, Syst. Bot. Mon. 16: 1–112 (1987), nom. conserv. (with N. alba L. as type)
- Gilg in E.J. 41: 351–366 (1908)
- Henkel, Rehnelt & Dittmann, Das Buch der Nymphaeaceen (1907)
- Conard, The Waterlilies (1905)
- Chifflot, Contrib. à l’Etude Nymph. (1902)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 227 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 510 (1753)
Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China
The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Science Photographs
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/