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This genus is accepted, and its native range is S. Tropical America.
Victoria amazonica (giant waterlily)

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Vietnam

Victoria Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Victoria Regia: 3 (1837)

Accepted by

  • Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Chase, M.W. (2017). Plants of the World. An illustrated encyclopedia of vascular plants: 1-792. Kew Publishing, The university of Chicago Press.

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