Nymphaeaceae
Water lilies and their relatives
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Friis, E. M., K. R. Pedersen, and P. R. Crane. 2001. Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous. Nature 410:357-360.
Gandolfo, M. A., K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet. 2004. Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early Angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101(21):8056-8060.
Ito, M. 1987. Phylogenetic systematics of the Nymphaeales. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 100:17-35.
Les, D., D. K. Garvin and C. F. Wimpee. 1991. Molecular evolutionary history of ancient aquatic angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 88:10119-10123.
Les, D. H., E. L. Schneider, D. J. Padgett, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, and M. Zanis. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and floral evolution of water lilies (Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeales): A synthesis of non-molecular, rbcL, matK, and rDNA data. Systematic Botany 24:28-46.
Löhne, C., T. Borsch, and J. H. Wiersema. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Nymphaeales using fast-evolving and noncoding chloroplast markers. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 154(2):141–163.
Moseley, M. F. Jr, E. L. Schneider, and P. S. Williamson. 1993. Phylogenetic interpretations from selected floral vasculature characters in the Nymphaeaceae sensu lato. Aquatic Botany 44:325–342.
Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: Analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S3-S27.
Schneider, E. L., S. Carlquist, K. Beamer, and A. Kohn. 1995. Vessels in Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar, Nymphaea, and Ondinea. International Journal of Plant Sciences 156:857-862.
Yamada, T., R. Imaichi, and M. Kato. 2001. Developmental morphology of ovules and seeds of Nymphaeales. American Journal of Botany 88:963-974.
Information on the Internet
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. University of Florida
- International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society
- Aquatic Gardeners Association
- Victoria Adventure Home. Water gardening.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Victoria cruziana |
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| Comments | The Santa Cruz water lily, native to northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. The photographed specimens were cultivated at the Botanical Garden Basel, Switzerland. |
| Acknowledgements | Photograph courtesy Botanical Image Database |
| Copyright |
© 2001 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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| Scientific Name | Nuphar japonica |
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| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Identified By | Sangtae Kim |
| Body Part | Flower |
| Copyright | © 2005 |
| Scientific Name | Nymphaea thermarum |
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| Location | endemic to Rwanda |
| Copyright |
© Kurt Stüber
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