Nuphar sect. Nuphar is a section within the genus Nuphar[2][3][4] native to Eurasia,[1] in addition to a single North American species Nuphar microphylla.[3][1]
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nuphar sect. Nuphar are herbaceous plants.[3]
Generative characteristics
The flowers have five sepals. The anthers are shorter or as long as half of the filament.[1] The margin of the stigmatic disk is lobed, or rarely entire.[5] The urceolate fruit has an elongate neck.[1]
Taxonomy
The autonymous section was created when Donald Jay Padgett described Nuphar sect. Astylus Padgett in 1999. The type species of Nuphar sect. Nuphar is Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm.[1]
Species
- Nuphar × fluminalis Shiga & Kadono
- Nuphar japonica DC.[6]
- Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm.[1][6]
- Nuphar microphylla (Pers.) Fernald[6]
- Nuphar oguraensis Miki[7]
- Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC.[6]
- Nuphar pumila subsp. sinensis (Hand.-Mazz.) Padgett[8]
- Nuphar × saijoensis (Shimoda) Padgett & Shimoda
- Nuphar saikokuensis Shiga & Kadono
- Nuphar × spenneriana Gaudin
- Nuphar subintegerrima (Casp.) Makino[9]
- Nuphar submersa Shiga & Kadono
Distribution
It occurs in Eurasia,[1] and North America, where only one species, Nuphar microphylla, is present.[3][1] The section originated and diversified in Eastern Asia.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Padgett, D. J. (1999). Nomenclatural novelties in Nuphar (Nymphaeaceae). Sida, Contributions to Botany, 823-826.
- ^ USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?type=section&id=18682. Accessed 20 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d Nuphar sect. Nuphar. (n.d.). Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN). Retrieved January 20, 2025, from https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/taxon/2182?lang=en
- ^ Missouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.-f). Nuphar sect. Nuphar. Tropicos. Retrieved January 20, 2025, from https://tropicos.org/name/50318743
- ^ Padgett, D. J. (2003). Phenetic studies in Nuphar Sm.(Nymphaeaceae): variation in sect. Nuphar. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 239, 187-197.
- ^ a b c d e Volkova, P. A., Arutyunyan, N. G., Schanzer, I. A., Chemeris, E. V., & Bobrov, A. A. (2018). Genetic variability of Eurasian Nuphar species unravels possible routes in which freshwater plants could fill their wide areas. Aquatic Botany, 145, 49-57.
- ^ USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=416188. Accessed 31 January 2025.
- ^ USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=416189. Accessed 31 January 2025.
- ^ USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=416194. Accessed 31 January 2025.
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