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The genus Nymphaea is in the family Nymphaeaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nymphaea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Nymphaea alba L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea amazonum Mart. & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea ampla (Salisb.) DC.	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea belophylla Trickett	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea candida C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea capensis Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea conardii Wiersema	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea divaricata Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea elegans Hook.	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea gardneriana Planch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea glandulifera Rodschied	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea gracilis Zucc.	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea heudelotii Planch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea jamesoniana Planch.	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea lasiophylla Mart. & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea leibergii (Morong) Morong	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea lekophylla (Small) Cory	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea lotus L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea malabarica Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea mexicana Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea micrantha Guill. & Perr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea novogranatensis Wiersema	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea odorata Aiton	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea × omarana Bisset	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea oxypetala Planch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea potamophila Wiersema	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea prolifera Wiersema	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea pubescens Willd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea pulchella DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea rudgeana G.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea stuhlmannii (Engl.) Schweinf. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Nymphaea sulphurea Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea × sundvikii Hiitonen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nymphaea tetragona Georgi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 263 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nymphaea. Of these 36 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 42 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nymphaea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 263 species names for the genus Nymphaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	36	13.7%
◕	Synonym	66	25.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	160	60.8%

All names

The status of the 305 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nymphaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	14.1%
◕	Synonym	99	32.5%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.3%
◕	Unassessed	162	53.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 263 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nymphaea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	33	61	0	0	94	35.7%
	Low confidence	3	5	1	160	169	64.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Nymphaea, are as follows: