Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea | |
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Nymphaea leibergii in its natural habitat | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Order: | Nymphaeales |
Family: | Nymphaeaceae |
Genus: | Nymphaea |
Subgenus: | Nymphaea subg. Nymphaea |
Section: | Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea (Planch.) Wiersema |
Type species | |
Nymphaea pygmaea (Salisb.) W.T.Aiton | |
Species | |
Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea is a section within the subgenus Nymphaea subg. Nymphaea of the genus Nymphaea native to North America, Asia, and Europe.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Its species have small, erect, cylindric, unbranched rhizomes lacking stolons. Both floating and submerged leaves are produced. The obovate to oval, glabrous, petiolate leaves with an entire margin have glabrous petioles with two primary air canals.
Generative characteristics
The small, 3–7.5 cm wide, white or rosy, flowers have peduncles with 4 primary air canals. The sepals are green. The 8–17 petals are white. The filaments are widest above the middle of the filament. The gynoecium consists of 5–12 carpels. The fruit bears smooth, ovoid, 2–3 mm long, and 1.5–2 mm wide seeds.
Taxonomy
It was first published as Nymphaea subsect. Chamaenymphaea Planch. by Jules Émile Planchon in 1853. It was then given a new status as Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea (Planch.) Wiersema published by John Harry Wiersema in 1997. It is placed in the subgenus Nymphaea subg. Nymphaea.
Species
- Nymphaea leibergii (Morong) Rydb.
- Nymphaea pygmaea (Salisb.) W.T.Aiton
- Nymphaea tetragona Georgi
Distribution
It occurs in North America, Asia, and Europe.
References
- Ortgies, E. (1851). Die Familie der Nymphaeen. Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Garten- Und Blumenzeitung, 7(11), pp. 481–484.
- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?type=section&id=18695. Accessed 3 December 2024.
- ^ Borsch, T., Hilu, K. W., Wiersema, J. H., Löhne, C., Barthlott, W., & Wilde, V. (2007). Phylogeny of Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae): evidence from substitutions and microstructural changes in the chloroplast trnT-trnF region. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 168(5), 639-671.
- ^ Wiersema, J. H. (1996). Nymphaea tetragona and Nymphaea leibergii (Nymphaeaceae): two species of diminutive water-lilies in North America. Brittonia, 48, 520-531.
- ^ Naito, H., Kato, S., Shutoh, K., & Shiga, T. (2024). Morphological and phylogenetic analyses reveal the taxonomic distinctiveness between Nymphaea pygmaea and N. tetragona (Nymphaeaceae).
- ^ Borsch, T., Wiersema, J. H., Hellquist, C. B., Löhne, C., & Govers, K. (2014). Speciation in North American water lilies: evidence for the hybrid origin of the newly discovered Canadian endemic Nymphaea loriana sp. nov.(Nymphaeaceae) in a past contact zone. Botany, 92(12), 867-882.
- ^ Conard, Henry S. (1905). The waterlilies: a monograph of the genus Nymphaea (p. 167). Pub. by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35045000
- Nymphaea subsect. Chamaenymphaea Planch. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved December 4, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/306974-2
- Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea (Planch.) Wiersema. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved December 3, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/994069-1
Taxon identifiers | |
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Nymphaea sect. Chamaenymphaea |