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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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