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Nymphaea subg. Confluentes

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Subgenus of flowering plants

Nymphaea subg. Confluentes
Flowering Nymphaea lukei cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nymphaea
Subgenus: Nymphaea subg. Confluentes
Type species
Nymphaea violacea Lehm.
Species

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Nymphaea subg. Confluentes is a subgenus of the genus Nymphaea.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

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

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.

Taxonomy

Publication

It was published by Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs in 2007.

Type species

The type species is Nymphaea violacea Lehm.

Species

Etymology

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

References

  1. ^ Nymphaea subgen. Confluentes | International Plant Names Index. (n.d.-b). Retrieved January 23, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/77081992-1
  2. ^ 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. ^ Nymphaea subg. Confluentes. (2020, January 6). Wikispecies. Retrieved 19:06, January 23, 2024 from https://species.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Nymphaea_subg._Confluentes&oldid=7207876.
  4. ^ 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
  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.
Taxon identifiers
Nymphaea subg. Confluentes
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