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Nuphar orbiculata

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Name

Identification
Nuphar bombycina (G.S.Mill. & Standl.) Standl. [family NYMPHAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Nuphar orbiculata (Small) Standl. [family NYMPHAEACEAE ] Nymphaea bombycina G.S.Mill. & Standl. [family NYMPHAEACEAE ]
Related name
  • Nuphar orbiculata
  • Nymphaea bombycina
  • Nuphar bombycina
  • Nuphar advena

Flora

Entry for Nuphar orbiculata (Small) Standley [family NYMPHAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 3,
Names
Nuphar orbiculata (Small) Standley [family NYMPHAEACEAE], Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser., 8: 311. 1931 (as orbiculatum)
Nymphaea orbiculata Small [family NYMPHAEACEAE], Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 23: 128. 1896
Nuphar lutea (Linnaeus) Smith subsp. orbiculata (Small) E. O. Beal [family NYMPHAEACEAE]
Nymphaea bombycina G. S. Miller & Standley [family NYMPHAEACEAE]
Information
Rhizomes ca. 7-8 cm diam. Leaves mostly floating, occasionally submersed; petiole terete. Leaf blade abaxially and adaxially green, often suffused with purple, orbiculate or nearly so, 20-45 × 20-45 cm, 1-1.2 times as long as wide, sinus ca. 1/2 length of midrib, lobes approximate to overlapping; surfaces abaxially densely pubescent. Flowers 4-8 cm diam.; sepals 6, abaxially green to adaxially yellow, never red-tinged toward base; petals oblong, thick; anthers 5-6 mm, longer than filaments. Fruit greenish or yellowish, cylindric to nearly globose, 3.5-5 cm, smooth basally, finely ribbed toward apex, slightly constricted below stigmatic disk; stigmatic disk green, yellow, or sometimes reddened, ca. 30-35 mm diam., undulate; stigmatic rays 12-28, linear or lanceolate, terminating 1-3 mm from margin of disk. Seeds 4-6 mm.
Phenology
Flowering mid spring-early fall
Altitude range
0-100 m
Distribution
USA Ala.USA Fla.USA Ga.
Discussion
Nuphar orbiculata is perhaps best treated as a subspecies. Plants intermediate between it and N. advena occur in southern Georgia and northern Florida.

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