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
- Nuphar × fluminalis Shiga & Kadono
- Nuphar japonica DC.
- Nuphar lutea Sm.
- Nuphar microphylla Fernald
- Nuphar oguraensis Miki
- Nuphar pumila DC.
- Nuphar pumila subsp. sinensis
- Nuphar × saijoensis Padgett & Shimoda
- Nuphar saikokuensis Shiga & Kadono
- Nuphar × spenneriana Gaudin
- Nuphar subintegerrima Makino
- Nuphar submersa Shiga & Kadono