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Nymphaeaceae

Water lilies and their relatives

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Relationships after Les et al. (1999)
Containing group: Angiosperms

Other Names for Nymphaeaceae

References

Friis, E. M., K. R. Pedersen, and P. R. Crane. 2001. Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous. Nature 410:357-360.

Gandolfo, M. A., K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet. 2004. Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early Angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101(21):8056-8060.

Ito, M. 1987. Phylogenetic systematics of the Nymphaeales. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 100:17-35.

Les, D., D. K. Garvin and C. F. Wimpee. 1991. Molecular evolutionary history of ancient aquatic angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 88:10119-10123.

Les, D. H., E. L. Schneider, D. J. Padgett, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, and M. Zanis. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and floral evolution of water lilies (Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeales): A synthesis of non-molecular, rbcL, matK, and rDNA data. Systematic Botany 24:28-46.

Löhne, C., T. Borsch, and J. H. Wiersema. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Nymphaeales using fast-evolving and noncoding chloroplast markers. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 154(2):141–163.

Moseley, M. F. Jr, E. L. Schneider, and P. S. Williamson. 1993. Phylogenetic interpretations from selected floral vasculature characters in the Nymphaeaceae sensu lato. Aquatic Botany 44:325–342.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: Analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S3-S27.

Schneider, E. L., S. Carlquist, K. Beamer, and A. Kohn. 1995. Vessels in Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar, Nymphaea, and Ondinea. International Journal of Plant Sciences 156:857-862.

Yamada, T., R. Imaichi, and M. Kato. 2001. Developmental morphology of ovules and seeds of Nymphaeales. American Journal of Botany 88:963-974.

Information on the Internet

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Scientific Name Nuphar variegatum
Location Seney NWR, Michigan, USA
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source DSZ_02161a
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2008 Jerry Oldenettel
Scientific Name Victoria amazonica
Location Buffalo Pond, near Karanambo ranch, on the Rupununi River. North Rupununi, Guyana
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source victoria amazonica at buffalo pond 2
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2008 Nicholas Laughlin
Scientific Name Nymphaea candida
Location cultivated, Botanical Garden, Ghent
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source 2007-06-13 099 Nymphaea candida
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2007 Du-Sa-Ni-Ma
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