Species of water lily
Nymphaea heudelotii [ 2]
FloweringNymphaea heudelotii specimen cultivated in theBotanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin Vegetative characteristics [ edit ] Nymphaea heudelotii is a relatively small,[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 2]
Generative characteristics [ edit ] The small blue to white flowers are 3-5 cm wide.[ 8] [ 2] [ 9] [ 7] [ 2]
The chromosome count is n = 14.[ 10] Nymphaea thermarum andNymphaea heudelotii are identical.[ 11]
Vegetative reproduction [ edit ] Nymphaea heudelotii has been reported to be viviparous starting from its second year of growth.[ 12]
It was first described byJules Émile Planchon in 1853.[ 2]
The type specimen was collected by M. Heudelot in Senegal in 1837. It is part of the collection of theNational Museum of Natural History, France .[ 13]
TheIUCN conservation status ofNymphaea heudelotii is Least Concern (LC).[ 1]
It occurs in small lakes, rivers, wet grass savannahs, riparian forests,[ 14] [ 9] sympatrically withWebsteria confervoides Nymphoides forbesiana Eriocaulon nadjae Utricularia benjaminiana [ 15] Sphagnum Papyrus associations close to open water.[ 2]
^a b Diop, F.N. 2020.Nymphaea heudelotii . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T185674A140425959.https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T185674A140425959.en . Accessed on 27 December 2023. ^a b c d e f g h "Nymphaea heudelotii Planch" .Plants of the World Online Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved26 December 2023 .^ Rybková, R., & Kunte, L. (2023)."Encyklopedie rostlin tropů a subtropů." p. 552. Cpress. ^ Mueller, K. (1857). "Annales botanices systematicae: 4: Synopsis plantarum Phanerogamicarum novarum omnium per annos 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 descriptarum." p. 158. Deutschland: A. Abel. ^ Wit, H. C. D. d. (1964). "Aquarium Plants." p. 171. Vereinigtes Königreich: Blandford Press. ^ Nymphaea heudelotii Planch. (n.d.). African Plant Database. Retrieved December 9, 2024, fromhttps://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/18284/nymphaea-heudelotii-planch ^a b Henkel, F., Rehnelt, F., Dittmann, L. (1907). "Das Buch der Nymphaeaceen oder Seerosengewächse." p. 58. Deutschland: Henkel. ^ Lóczy, L. (1897). "Resultate der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees." p. 47. Österreich: In Kommission von E. Hölzel. ^a b Conard, H. S. (2015). The Waterlilies: A Monograph of the GenusNymphaea (Classic Reprint). pp. 147-149. USA: FB&C Limited. ^ Chen, F., Liu, X., Yu, C., Chen, Y., Tang, H., & Zhang, L. (2017)."Water lilies as emerging models for Darwin’s abominable mystery." Horticulture research, 4. ^ Roestel, J. A., Wiersema, J. H., Jansen, R. K., Borsch, T., & Gruenstaeudl, M. (2024).On the importance of sequence alignment inspections in plastid phylogenomics–an example from revisiting the relationships of the water‐lilies. Cladistics. ^ Nymphaea heudelotii in Global Plants on JSTOR. (n.d.). plants.jstor.org.https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/nymphaea.heudelotii ^ Type ofNymphaea heudelotii Planch. [family NYMPHAEACEAE]. (n.d.). JSTOR. Retrieved December 27, 2023, fromhttps://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.p00442724 ^ "Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants." p. 93. (2008). Niederlande: Rijksherbarium.^ Harris, D. J., Armstrong, K. E., Walters, G. M., Wilks, C., Mbembo, J.-C. M., Niangadouma, R., Wieringa, J. J., & Breteler, F. J. (2012). Phytogeographical analysis and checklist of the vascular plants of Loango National Park, Gabon. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 145(2), 242–257.http://www.jstor.org/stable/43491837
