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Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae () is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate climate, temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or rising from the surface. Leaves are oval and heart-shaped in ''Barclaya''. Leaves are round, with a radial notch in ''Nymphaea'' and ''Nuphar'', but fully circular in ''Victoria (plant), Victoria'' and ''Euryale ferox, Euryale''. Water lilies are a well-studied family of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants. Later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, h ...
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Nymphaea
''Nymphaea'' () is a genus of hardiness (plants), hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, and some are weeds. Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies, or waterlilies in the United Kingdom. The genus name is from the Greek language, Greek νυμφαία, ''nymphaia'' and the Latin ''nymphaea'', which means "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, Latin mythology. Description Vegetative characteristics Water lilies are aquatic, rhizomatous or tuberous, perennial or annual herbs with sometimes desiccation-tolerant, branched or unbranched rhizomes, which can be stoloniferous, or lacking stolons. The tuberous or fibrous roots are contractile. The leaves are mostly floating, but submerged and emergent ...
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Nuphar Variegata 15-p
''Nuphar'' is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae, with a temperate to subarctic Northern Hemisphere distribution. Common names include water-lily (Eurasian species; shared with many other genera in the same family), pond-lily, alligator-bonnet or bonnet lily, and spatterdock (North American species). Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nuphar'' species are aquatic, perennial, rhizomatous, heterophyllous herbs''Nuphar'' Smith. (n.d.). Flora of China @ efloras.org. Retrieved November 27, 2024, from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=122507 with branching rhizomes, which are not stoloniferous. The rhizomes bear conspicuous leaf scars. The adventitious roots grow underneath and at the side of the rhizome. The leaves can be submerged, floating, or emergent. The lamina can be ovate, elliptic, orbicular, linear, obovate, or lanceolate. The lamina has an entire margin, but it can be crisped in submerged leaves. The long, flattened, win ...
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Victoria (plant)
''Victoria'' or giant waterlily is a genus of aquatic herbs in the plant family Nymphaeaceae. Its leaves have a remarkable size: ''Victoria boliviana'' produces leaves up to in width. The genus name was given in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.Knotts, K., & Knotts, B. (n.d.). Introduction to ''Victoria''. ''Victoria'' Adventure. Retrieved November 28, 2024, from https://victoria-adventure.com/victoria/victoria_intro.html Description Vegetative characteristics ''Victoria'' species are rhizomatous, aquatic, short-lived, perennial herbs with tuberous rhizomes bearing contractilePellegrini, M.O.O. Nymphaeaceae in Flora e Funga do Brasil. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Available at: https://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/FB24052 consulta.publica.uc.citacao.acesso.em28 Nov. 2024 adventitious roots. The floating leaves are peltate and orbicular. The margin of the lamina is raised. The lamina possesses stomatodes (i.e. microscopic perforations).Gessner, F. (1950). Die S ...
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Barclaya Longifolia In Thailand Crooped
''Barclaya'' is a genus of eight species of flowering plants of the family Nymphaeaceae. ''Barclaya'' are aquatic plants native to tropical Asia. The genus was named in honour of the American-born English brewer and patron of science Robert Barclay. Description Vegetative characteristics Its species are perennial, aquatic,Watson, L., & Dallwitz, M. J. (n.d.). Barclayaceae (Endl.) Li. The Families of Angiosperms. Retrieved December 6, 2024, from https://www.delta-intkey.com/angio/www/barclaya.htm rhizomatous herbs with slender, horizontal, villous-pubescent, creeping or tuberous, often stoloniferous rhizomes. The petiolate leaves are mostly submerged and do not float on the water surface. The linear, oblong, or suborbicular lamina with a cordate baseCook, C. D. K. (1974).Water Plants of the World: A Manual for the Identification of the Genera of Freshwater Macrophytes.p. 335. Niederlande: Junk. has an entire margin. Generative characteristics The solitary, pedunculate, sumberg ...
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Euryale (plant)
''Euryale'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Nymphaeaceae. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Euryale'' is an annual or perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic herb with erect, unbranched rhizomes.''Euryale'' Salisbury. Flora of China @ efloras.org. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2024, from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112398 The adaxial leaf surface is green, and features prickles at the veins. The abaxial leaf surface is violet and displays prominent, prickly venation.Henkel, F., Rehnelt, F., Dittmann, L. (1907)."Das Buch der Nymphaeaceen oder Seerosengewächse."pp.45-46. Deutschland: Henkel. The thin, sharp prickles are 3–11 mm long, and 1–2 mm wide at the base. Generative characteristics The pedunculate, 5 cm wide flowers have prickly peduncles and sepals.''Euryale ferox'' in Flora of China @ efloras.org. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2024, from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200007078 The flower ...
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Allenbya (plant)
''Allenbya'' is an extinct genus of Nymphaeaceae, water lilies in the family Nymphaeaceae containing a monotypic, single species ''Allenbya collinsonae''. The species is known from permineralized remains recovered from the Early Eocene Princeton Chert in British Columbia, Canada. Distribution ''Allenbya collinsonae'' is known exclusively from the Princeton Chert, a fossil locality in British Columbia, Canada, that contains an anatomically preserved flora of Eocene Epoch (geology), Epoch age, with rich species abundance and diversity. The chert is located in exposures of the Allenby Formation on the east bank of the Similkameen River, south of the town of Princeton, British Columbia. Notable in conjunction with the coal seams of the Allenby Formation are sections of chert which formed during silica-rich periods. The rapid cyclical changes from coal to chert and back are not noted in any other fossil locality in the world. An estimated 49 coal/chert cycles are known and the ti ...
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Microvictoria
''Microvictoria svitkoana'' is a fossil species of aquatic plant, which occurred in the Cretaceous period of New Jersey, USA.Gandolfo, M. A., Nixon, K. C., & Crepet, W. L. (2004)"Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early angiosperms."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(21), 8056-8060. Description Generative characteristics The pedunculate, actinomorphic flowers are 2.3-3.4 mm long, and 1.2-1.6 mm wide. The peduncle is 0.4-1.8 mm long. Both staminoids and fertile stamens are present. Taxonomy Publication It was published by Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, Kevin C. Nixon, and William L. Crepet in 2004. Type specimen The type specimen was collected in the Old Crossman Clay Pit, Sayreville, New Jersey, USA. Position within Nymphaeales It is placed in the family Nymphaeaceae. This placement has been questioned by different authors, who believe it may be placed outside of the order Nymphaeales.Friis ...
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Susiea
''Susiea newsalemae'' was a species of plant, which occurred in the Late Paleocene period of North Dakota, USA.Taylor, W., DeVore, M. L., & Pigg, K. B. (2006)"''Susiea newsalemae'' gen. et sp. nov.(Nymphaeaceae): ''Euryale''-like seeds from the Late Paleocene Almont Flora, North Dakota, USA."International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167(6), 1271-1278. It is monospecific within the genus ''Susiea''. Description Generative characteristics The bilaterally symmetrical, operculate, oval to barrel-shaped seeds are 5 mm long, and 3 mm wide. The seeds have a prominent lateral raphe. Taxonomy Publication It was published by Witt Taylor, Melanie L. DeVore and Kathleen B. Pigg in 2006.''Susiea newsalemae''. (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index. Retrieved February 5, 2024, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=CD2D95B5-26C9-4136-AFBD-4AE3D2B92F39''Susiea''. (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index. Retrieved February 5, 2024, from https://www.ifpni.org/genus.ht ...
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Nuphaea
''Nuphaea engelhardtii'' was a species of aquatic plant, which occurred in the Eocene period of Germany. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nuphaea engelhardtii'' was an aquatic plant with petiolate, macrophyllous, simple, ovate leaves with an entire margin. The base of the lamina is cordate. The leaves have a prominent medial vein. Taxonomy Publication It was published by Carole T. Gee and David Winship Taylor in 2019. Type specimen The type specimen was collected by Hermann Engelhardt in the Messel Pit, Hessen, Germany.Gee, C. T., & Taylor, D. W. (2019)"An Extinct Transitional Leaf Genus of Nymphaeaceae from the Eocene Lake at Messel, Germany: ''Nuphaea engelhardtii'' Gee et David W. Taylor gen. et sp. nov."International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180(7), 724-736. Position within Nymphaeales It is placed within the family Nymphaeaceae.Vera, E. I., Loinaze, V. S. P., Moyano-Paz, D., Coronel, M. D., Manabe, M., Tsuihiji, T., & Novas, F. E. (2022). Paleobotany of the upp ...
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Jaguariba
''Jaguariba wiersemana'' was a species of herbaceous, rhizomatous, aquatic plant, which occurred in the early Cretaceous period of Northern Gondwana. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Jaguariba wiersemana'' was an aquatic herbaceous plant with up to 15 mm wide rhizomes and up to 1.5 mm wide adventitious roots. The petiolate, alternately arranged, simple leaves had elliptic-ovate, 16-53 mm long, and 19-69 mm wide leaf blades. The petioles were 42-118 mm long, and 2-6 mm wide. The leaf venation was actinodromous.Coiffard, C., Mohr, B. A., & Bernardes-de-Oliveira, M. E. (2013)"''Jaguariba wiersemana'' gen. nov. et sp. nov., an Early Cretaceous member of crown group Nymphaeales (Nymphaeaceae) from northern Gondwana."Taxon, 62(1), 141-151. Taxonomy Publication It was first described by Clément Coiffard, Barbara Adelheid Rosina Mohr, and Mary Elizabeth Cerruti Bernardes-de-Oliveira in 2013. Type specimen The holotype is kept in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. The type loca ...
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