Nymphaea elegans

Nymphaea elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nymphaea
Species: N. elegans
Binomial name
Nymphaea elegans
Hook., 1851[1]
Synonyms
  • Castalia elegans (Hook.) Greene 1888[2]
  • Leuconymphaea elegans (Hook.) Kuntze 1891[3]
  • Nymphaea mexicana A.Gray 1852[4]

Nymphaea elegans, the tropical royalblue waterlily,[5] is a species of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. It is found in Louisiana, Florida and Texas, in the United States, in Oaxaca in Mexico and in Antioquia in Colombia.

References

  1. Hooker, W.J. 1851. Bot. Mag. 77: t. 4604.
  2. Greene, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 85. 1888.
  3. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 11. 1891.
  4. A.Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 7. 1852, nom. illeg., non Zucc. (1832).
  5. "Nymphaea elegans". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
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