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Taxon: Nymphaea alba L.

Genus: Nymphaea subgenus: Nymphaea section: Nymphaea
Family: Nymphaeaceae.
Nomen number: 25429
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:510. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Dec-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Feb-2000
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Iraq; Israel [extinct]; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Krasnodar, Stavropol
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Chelyabinsk
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Astrakhan, Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Karelia, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mordvinia, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Tver, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh; Ukraine
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated in temperate regions

References:

  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
  • Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
  • Dafni, A. & M. Agami. 1976. Extinct plants of Israel. Biol. Conservation 10:49–52. [extinct in Israel].
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
  • Fennane, M. et al., eds. 1999–. Flore pratique du Maroc.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  • Fu, D.-Z. & J. H. Wiersema. 2001. Nymphaeaceae. In: Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds., Flora of China (English edition).
  • Giesen, T. G. & G. van der Velde. 1978. De verspreiding van Nymphaea candida Presl en Nymphaea alba L. in Nederland. Gorteria 9(3):61–66.
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
  • Grossheim, A. A. et al., eds. 1939–. Flora Kavkaza, ed. 2.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
  • Jonsell, B., ed. 2000. Flora nordica.
  • Kak, A. M. 1985. Aquatic and wetland vegetation of the north western Himalaya—XXI. Family Nymphaeaceae in the north western Himalaya. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 7:591–598.
  • Kak, A. M. 1990. Aquatic and wetland vegetation of the Kashmir Himalaya. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 14:10.
  • Khan, Z. et al. 1997. Aquatic plants of Iran and Pakistan: 8. Nymphaeaceae. Biologia (Lahore) 43:10.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
  • Koul, K. & A. R. Naqshi. 1988. Nymphaeaceae of Jammu and Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:454–456.
  • Kumar, S. 2001. Flora of Haryana (Materials).
  • Laasimer, L. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
  • Muntendam, J. B. et al. 1996. Morphometric patterns in the Nymphaea alba-candida complex. Acta Bot. Neerl. 45:279–302.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
  • Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
  • Shetty, B. V. & V. Singh, eds. 1987–. Flora of India. Series 2: Flora of Rajasthan. [mentions].
  • Singh, N. P., eds. 2002–. Flora of Jammu & Kashmir.
  • Takhtajan, A. L., ed. 1954–1987. Flora Armenii.
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
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Check other web resources for Nymphaea alba L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Nymphaea alba cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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