''Nymphaea'' subg. ''Confluentes'' is a

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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 ta ...

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Description

Vegetative characteristics

''Nymphaea'' subg. ''Confluentes'' has tuberous rhizomes. The leaves have an entire to sinuate margin.null. ''Nymphaea'' subg. ''Confluentes'', in (ed.), Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Nymphaea%20subg.%20Confluentes ate Accessed: 03 February 2024

Generative characteristics

The diurnal flowers extend above the water surface. The petals do not have a conspicuous gap between petals and stamens. The seeds are smaller than those of ''Nymphaea'' subg. ''Anecphya''.LÖHNE, C., WIERSEMA, J. H., & BORSCH, T. (2009). The unusual ''Ondinea'', actually just another Australian water-lily of Nymphaea subg. Anecphya (Nymphaeaceae). Willdenowia, 39(1), 55–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20699149

Taxonomy

It was described by

Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs (born 29 April 1946 in Sydney - died 26 November 2009) was an Australian botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, thei ...

in 2007''Nymphaea'' subgen. ''Confluentes'' S.W.L.Jacobs , International Plant Names Index. (n.d.-b). Retrieved January 23, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/77081992-1S.W.L.Jacobs, & C.L.Porter. (2007)
Nymphaeaceae.
In Flora of Australia Volume 2, Winteraceae to Platanaceae (Vol. 2, pp. 259–275, 458). ABRS, Canberra/CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. with ''

Nymphaea violacea ''Nymphaea violacea'', also known as blue lily, is a waterlily in the genus ''Nymphaea''. Distribution ''Nymphaea violacea'' is found in Australia, particularly in the Western Australian Kimberley region and in northern parts of Queensland and ...

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Species

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Nymphaea elleniae ''Nymphaea elleniae'' is a species of waterlily native to Papua New Guinea, and North Queensland, Australia. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nymphaea elleniae'' is a perennial plant with elongate rhizomes. Mature floating leaves are 22 ...

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Nymphaea hastifolia ''Nymphaea hastifolia'' is a species of waterlily native to the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nymphaea hastifolia'' is an annual or perennial aquatic herb with globose rhizomes. The elliptic ...

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Nymphaea lukei ''Nymphaea lukei'' is a species of waterlily endemic to Western Australia. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nymphaea lukei'' is an annual or perennial aquatic plant with globose, 2-2.5 cm wide rhizomes. The elliptic, petiolate, 9.7 ...

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Nymphaea noelae ''Nymphaea noelae'' is a species of water lily endemic to Queensland, Australia. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Nymphaea noelae'' is an annual or perennial aquatic plant with 2 cm wide, globose rhizomes. The sub-orbicular to elliptic, ...

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Nymphaea ondinea ''Nymphaea ondinea'' is an aquatic plant in the family Nymphaeaceae Nymphaeaceae () is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate climate, temperate and tropical climat ...

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Etymology

The name of the subgenus ''Confluentes'' refers to the gradual transition of the petals into stamens.''Nymphaea'' subg. ''Confluentes'' S.W.L.Jacobs. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2024, from https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/212038

References

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