Nuphar sect. Nuphar

Section of the genus ''Nuphar'' in the family Nymphaeaceae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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Nuphar sect. Nuphar
Nuphar lutea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nuphar
Section: Nuphar sect. Nuphar
(Autonym)
Type species
Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm.[1]
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Description

Nuphar subintegerrima
Broad-necked, deeply furrowed fruit of Nuphar sect. Astylus (left) and smooth, urceolate fruit with a slim, elongate neck of Nuphar sect. Nuphar (right)

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

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]

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