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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
Link to protologue:
Typification: View in Linnean Typification Project
Name Verified on: 01-Dec-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 12-May-2016
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 2 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental
  • Medicines: folklore

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
    • EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Karelia, Mordvinia, Tatarstan, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, 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 cult. in temperate regions)

References:

  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  2. Cannon, J. & M. Cannon Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1994 (Dye Pl)
  3. Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares. (F Iberica)
  4. Dafni, A. & M. Agami 1976. Extinct plants of Israel Biol. Conservation 10:49-52.
  5. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
  7. Fennane, M. et al., eds. Flore pratique du Maroc. (F Prat Maroc)
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
  9. Fu, D.-Z. & J. H. Wiersema 2001. Nymphaeaceae (F ChinaEng)
  10. 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.
  11. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  12. Grossheim, A. A. et al., eds. Flora Kavkaza, ed. 2. (F Kavkaza)
  13. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  14. Jalas, J. & J. Suominen Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
  15. Jonsell, B., ed. Flora nordica. (F Nordica)
  16. 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.
  17. Kak, A. M. 1990. Aquatic and wetland vegetation of the Kashmir Himalaya J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 14:10.
  18. Khan, Z. et al. 1997. Aquatic plants of Iran and Pakistan: 8. Nymphaeaceae Biologia (Lahore) 43:10.
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  22. Laasimer, L. et al., eds. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants. (F Baltic)
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  28. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  29. Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. Flora of India. (F India)
  30. Shetty, B. V. & V. Singh, eds. Flora of India. Series 2: Flora of Rajasthan. (F Rajasthan)
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Check other web resources for Nymphaea alba L. :

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • 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.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2019. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?25429. Accessed 22 January 2019.