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Nymphaea divaricata

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Name

Identification
Nymphaea divaricata Hutch. [family NYMPHAEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Nymphaea divaricata Hutch. [family NYMPHAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 175, (1960) Author: F. A. Mendoça
Names
Nymphaea divaricata Hutch. [family NYMPHAEACEAE], in Kew Bull.1931: 246, cum fig. (1931); Botanist in S. Afr.: 525 cum fig., 528 (1946). Type: N. Rhodesia, Kasama, Hutchinson & Gillett 4045 (K, holotype).
Information
Aquatic herb with elongate rhizome 1–2 cm. thick. Leaves 8–24 cm. broad, submerged or rarely some of them floating (fide A. A. Bullock), thinly papyraceous, bilobed-divaricate, cordate at the base, retuse at the apex, with a ± narrow isthmus along the midrib, slightly or not peltate, margin entire, smooth on both surfaces, primary lateral nerves 5–6 on each side of the midrib, 1–2 pairs of secondary nerves arising from the midrib (or absent). Flowers blue or pink (yellow in specimens from Angola), 4–10 cm. in diam., floating or slightly emergent. Sepals 4 (8 reported in the original description), 2.6–4.5 x 0.8–1.2 cm., ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute. Petals 12–15, as long as the sepals, lanceolate, obtuse or acute. Stamens 20–30, connective-appendage acute. Carpels 12–18; style short. Fruit not seen.
Habitat
Aquatic herb in rivers, lakes and pools.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn, Kambole, fl. 30.v.1936, Burtt 6228 (BM; K); Pansa R., fl. 2.x.1949, Bullock 1155 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Belgian Congo

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