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Nymphaea lotus Linnaeus 1753
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Description
Nymphaea lotus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 511. 1753.
"Habitat in calidis Indiae, Africae, Americae." RCN: 3857.
Lectotype (Verdcourt in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Nymphaeaceae: 3. 1989): [icon] "Lotus Aegyptia" in Alpino, Pl. Exot.: 214, 213. 1627.
Current name: Nymphaea lotus L. (Nymphaeaceae).
Note: Verdcourt (in Kew Bull. 44: 179. 20 Mar 1989) gave a detailed account but the typification dates from his slightly earlier (15 Feb 1989) Flora account.
Notes
Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part N), pp. 690-695 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 695, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Nymphaeales
- Family
- Nymphaeaceae
- Genus
- Nymphaea
- Species
- lotus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nymphaea lotus Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007