Nymphaea subg. Confluentes

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Nymphaea subg. Confluentes
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Flowering Nymphaea lukei cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nymphaea
Subgenus: Nymphaea subg. Confluentes
S.W.L.Jacobs [1]
Type species
Nymphaea violacea Lehm. [1] [2] [3]
Species

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Nymphaea subg. Confluentes is a subgenus of the genus Nymphaea . [1] [2] [3]

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Description

Vegetative characteristics

Nymphaea subg. Confluentes has tuberous rhizomes. The leaves have an entire to sinuate margin. [4]

Generative characteristics

The diurnal flowers extend above the water surface. The petals do not have a conspicuous gap between petals and stamens. [4] The seeds are smaller than those of Nymphaea subg. Anecphya. [5]

Taxonomy

It was described by Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs in 2007 [1] [6] with Nymphaea violacea Lehm. as the type species. [1] [2] [3]

Species

Etymology

The name of the subgenus Confluentes refers to the gradual transition of the petals into stamens. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Nymphaea subgen. Confluentes S.W.L.Jacobs | International Plant Names Index. (n.d.-b). Retrieved January 23, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/77081992-1
  2. 1 2 3 4 Nymphaea subg. Confluentes S.W.L.Jacobs. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2024, from https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/212038
  3. 1 2 3 Nymphaea subg. Confluentes. (2020, January 6). Wikispecies. Retrieved 19:06, January 23, 2024 from https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nymphaea_subg._Confluentes&oldid=7207876.
  4. 1 2 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 [Date Accessed: 03 February 2024]
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ S.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.
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