Nuphar sect. Nuphar


Nuphar sect. Nuphar is a section within the genus Nuphar native to Eurasia, in addition to a single North American species Nuphar microphylla.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Nuphar sect. Nuphar are herbaceous plants.

Generative characteristics

The flowers have five sepals. The anthers are shorter or as long as half of the filament. The margin of the stigmatic disk is lobed, or rarely entire. The urceolate fruit has an elongate neck.

Taxonomy

The autonymous section was created when Donald Jay Padgett described Nuphar sect. Astylus in 1999. The type species of Nuphar sect. Nuphar is ''Nuphar lutea''

Species

Distribution

It occurs in Eurasia, and North America, where only one species, Nuphar microphylla, is present. The section originated and diversified in Eastern Asia.