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Genus: Nymphaea (waterlilies)
Life
> eukaryotes >
Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
> Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants)
> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Order: Nymphaeales
> Family: Nymphaeaceae
About 40 species worldwide (cosmopolitan) of which two are
indigenous to southern Africa and one naturalised.
Species indigenous to southern Africa
List from Glen & Cook (2003).
Nymphaea lotus |
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Nymphaea nouchali
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Species naturalised in southern Africa
From Glen & Cook (2003).
Publications
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Glen, R.P. & Cook, C.D.K. 2003. Nymphaeaceae. In
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an
annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 750. National Botanical
Institute, Pretoria.
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