Nymphaea subg. Anecphya
Nymphaea subg. Anecphya is a subgenus of the genus Nymphaea.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
The rhizomes are erect and tuberous. The rhizomes do not produce stolons. The leaves have dentate margins.Generative characteristics
The diurnal flowers are large and emergent. In Nymphaea subg. Anecphya s.str. there is a conspicuous gap separating petals from stamens. The flowers have up to 600 stamens. The carpels do not have carpellary appendages.Taxonomy
Publication
It was published by Robert Caspary as Nymphaea subsect. Anecphya Casp. in 1888. Later, it was elevated to the subgenus Nymphaea subgen. Anecphya Conard published by Henry Shoemaker Conard in 1905. Part of this subgenus was split off by Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs in 2007 to create the new subgenus Nymphaea subgenus Confluentes S.W.L.Jacobs.Type species
The type species is Nymphaea gigantea Hook.Species
- Nymphaea alexii
- Nymphaea atrans
- Nymphaea carpentariae
- Nymphaea elleniae
- Nymphaea georginae
- Nymphaea gigantea
- Nymphaea hastifolia
- Nymphaea immutabilis
- Nymphaea jacobsii
- Nymphaea jacobsii subsp. toomba Hellq.
- Nymphaea kakaduensis
- Nymphaea kimberleyensis
- Nymphaea lukei
- Nymphaea macrosperma
- Nymphaea noelae
- Nymphaea ondinea
- Nymphaea ondinea subsp. petaloidea
- Nymphaea vaporalis
- ''Nymphaea violacea''