Nymphaea elegans

Nymphaea elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
Order:	Nymphaeales
Family:	Nymphaeaceae
Genus:	Nymphaea
Species:	N. elegans
Binomial name
Nymphaea elegans Hook., 1851[1]
Synonyms
Castalia elegans (Hook.) Greene 1888[2] Leuconymphaea elegans (Hook.) Kuntze 1891[3] Nymphaea mexicana A.Gray 1852[4]

Nymphaea elegans, the tropical royalblue waterlily,^[5] is a species of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. It is found in Louisiana, Florida and Texas, in the United States, in Oaxaca in Mexico and in Antioquia in Colombia.

References

1. Hooker, W.J. 1851. Bot. Mag. 77: t. 4604.
2. Greene, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 85. 1888.
3. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 11. 1891.
4. A.Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 7. 1852, nom. illeg., non Zucc. (1832).
5. "Nymphaea elegans". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

• CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Man. Vasc. Pl. Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
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• Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
• Long, R. W. & O. K. Lakela. 1971. Fl. Trop. Florida i–xvii, 1–962. University of Miami Press, Coral Cables.
• Wiersema, J. H. & C. B. Hellquist. 1993. Nymphaeaceae. 62 pp.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide Vasc. Pl. Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

External links

• Media related to Nymphaea elegans at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Nymphaea elegans at Wikispecies
• Nymphaea elegans at Tropicos