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Fossil species of aquatic plant

Nymphaea minuta Temporal range: Aquitanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Aquitanian^[1] (23.03 – 20.44 Ma)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Order:	Nymphaeales
Family:	Nymphaeaceae
Genus:	Nymphaea
Species:	†N. minuta
Binomial name
†Nymphaea minuta Saporta^[1]

Nymphaea minuta is a fossil species in the family Nymphaeaceae from the Aquitanian of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.^[1] It is known from a leaf fossil.^[2]

The minute, petiolate, ovate to cordate leaf has an entire margin and an obtuse apex. The leaf base is cordate, and the basal lobes are slightly diverging. The petiole is thin.^[3]

Taxonomy

It was first validly published by Gaston de Saporta in 1891,^[1] after it had invalidly been described by Saporta one year before.^[4] It has been described as very similar to Nymphaea pygmaea^[2]^[3] and Nymphaea tetragona.^[5]^[6] Saporta suggested Nymphaea minuta may represent an ancestral species of Nymphaea pygmaea.^[3]

Etymology

The specific epithet minuta from the Latin minutus means very small.^[7]

Homonyms

It has several homonyms: Nymphaea minuta V.P. Nikitin was published by Vadim Petrovich Nikitin in 1964^[8] and then again in 2007.^[9] The correct name is Nymphaea nikitinii Doweld published by Alexander Borisovitch Doweld in 2022.^[10]^[11] Nymphaea minuta K.C.Landon, R.A.Edwards & Nozaic was published by Kenneth C. Landon, Richard A. Edwards, and P. Ivan Nozaic in 2006.^[12] The corrected name is Nymphaea dimorpha I.M.Turner published by Ian Mark Turner in 2014.^[13]

References

1 2 3 4 Nymphaea minuta Saporta (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved March 3, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=6E794BA7-C653-9076-B1BB-01DDE9A63AF1
1 2 Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. p. 889. (1894). Frankreich: Gauthier-Villars.
1 2 3 de Saporta, G. (1891). Recherches sur la végétation du niveau aquitanien de Manosque. pp. 13–14. Librairie polytechnique.
↑ Nymphaea minuta Saporta (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved March 3, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=544C4209-54C6-C0DB-532A-A0B07895A411
↑ Conard, Henry S. (1905). The waterlilies: a monograph of the genus Nymphaea (p. 216). Pub. by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35045097
↑ Revue générale de botanique. p. 191. (1890). Frankreich: Libraire générale de le̓nseignement.
↑ Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 10). Maihueniopsis minuta. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved March 4, 2025, from https://www.cactusnames.org/maihueniopsis-minuta
↑ Nymphaea minuta V.P. Nikitin (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved March 3, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=43441A35-08BD-B3B1-ABD4-8CEA23D2EC64
↑ Nymphaea minuta V.P. Nikitin (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved March 3, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=8808C3FC-32A2-406D-A6DA-CFBA8CF7BD77
↑ Doweld A.B. 2022. New names of fossil Nymphaeaceae and allied forms. Geophytology 52(1&2): 1–28.
↑ Nymphaea nikitinii Doweld (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved March 3, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=6D06C024-4DAF-A6E9-482F-8E3793C0A8A1
↑ Landon, K., Edwards, R. A., & Nozaic, P. I. (2006). A new species of waterlily (Nymphaea minuta: Nymphaeaceae) from Madagascar. SIDA, Contributions to Botany, 887-893.
↑ Turner, I. M. (2014, October). Names of extant angiosperm species that are illegitimate homonyms of fossils. In Annales Botanici Fennici (Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 305-317). Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board.

Taxon identifiers
Nymphaea minuta	Wikidata: Q117089647 IFPNI: 544C4209-54C6-C0DB-532A-A0B07895A411

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