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Nymphaea
L. (1753)
- water lilies
(plant)
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Entity:
Nymphaeoideae (Subfamily)
..Barclaya (Genus)
..Euryale (Genus)
..Victoria (Genus)
..Nymphaea (Genus) - water lilies
....Nymphaea advena (Species)
....Nymphaea alba (Species) - European white waterlily
....Nymphaea blanda (Species) - waterlily
....Nymphaea caerulea (Species) - Egyptian lotus
....Nymphaea candida (Species)
....Nymphaea capensis (Species) - Cape Blue waterlily
....Nymphaea coerulea (Species)
....Nymphaea coerulea x N. micrantha (Species)
....Nymphaea daubenyana (Species)
....Nymphaea devoniensis (Species)
....Nymphaea elegans (Species) - tropical royalblue waterlily
....Nymphaea lotus (Species) - white Egyptian lotus
....Nymphaea micrantha (Species)
....Nymphaea odorata (Species) - American waterlily
....Nymphaea ortgiesiana (Species)
....Nymphaea ortgiesiana x N. rubra (Species)
....Nymphaea rubra (Species)
....Nymphaea stellata (Species)
....Nymphaea subg. Anecphya (Subgenus)
....Nymphaea subg. Brachyeeras (Subgenus)
....Nymphaea subg. Castalia (Subgenus)
....Nymphaea subg. Hydrocallis (Subgenus)
....Nymphaea subg. Lotos (Subgenus)
....Nymphaea tetragona (Species) - pygmy waterlily
....Nymphaea zenkeri (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C. Linnaeus, 1753
Original name
:
Linnaeus, C. 1753a.
Sp. Pl.
1
: 510.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
Nymphaeoideae
(Subfamily)
Arn.
Type
:
Nymphaea alba
L.
Variants
Not validly published name
:
Nymphaea
(Genus)
nom. inval.
Different spelling
:
Nymphea
(Genus)
Synonyms
Junior objective synonym
:
Castalia
(Genus)
Salisb. (1805), nom. illeg.
Ref:
E.R. Farr & G. Zijlstra (eds.), 1996-present
: 16 Jul 2021 ("by lectotypification"). [false (ING, 1 Feb 2022)].
Including
:
Ondinea
(Genus)
C. den Hartog (1970)
Ref:
D.J. Mabberley, 2008
: 602.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
waterlelie
Ref:
R. van der Meijden, 1990
: 144.
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
water lilies
Ref:
1987
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