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Nuphar pumila, the least water-lily [4] or small yellow pond-lily, is an aquatic perennial plant in the Nymphaeaceae family. It is also known as the dwarf water lily since it looks like a smaller Nuphar lutea. while Nuphar pumila has a star-shaped, or lobed form of the stigma disc and glabrous leaf undersides, Nuphar lutea has a round stigma disc and the undersides of its leaves are ...
N. tetragona is an important ornamental plant. [7] [14] [20] The buds of the leaf and the seeds can also be used as food. [14] In Buddhism, it is used as an offering flower. [21] It has a rich history of use in ethnomedicine. [20] Tribal practitioners of herbal medicine would use the rhizomes of N. tetragona to treat dysentery and diarrhea. [20]
Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies, [3] [5] or waterlilies in the United Kingdom. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαία, nymphaia and the Latin nymphaea , which means "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology .
The hairy water lily is an aquatic plant having erect perennial rhizomes or rootstocks that anchor it to the mud in the bottom. The rhizomes produce slender stolons . Its leave blades are round above the water and heart-shaped below 15–26(–50) cm, papery, abaxially densely pubescent.
The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, consisting of three families of aquatic plants, the Hydatellaceae, the Cabombaceae, and the Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). It is one of the three orders of basal angiosperms, an early-diverging grade of flowering plants. At least 10 morphological characters unite the Nymphaeales. [3]
Nymphoides aquatica is an aquatic plant in the Menyanthaceae, native to the southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland. [1] [2] It is known variously as the banana plant, banana lily, and the big floatingheart. It is most commonly called the banana plant because of its banana-shaped roots. These unusual roots store nutrients.
The flowers are 15–25 cm wide. [5] The four purplish-red sepals are oblong to lanceolate. [6] The 12-20 narrowly oval petals have a rounded apex. The androecium consists of 55 red stamens. [5] The gynoecium consists of 16-21 carpels. [6] The fruit bears 1.85 mm long, and 1.6 mm wide seeds. [5] The peduncle is 116 cm long. [3]
The floating or emersed, [5] yellow, 6–13 cm wide flowers have peduncles with 4 primary air canals. [10] The flowers have four sepals [6] and 12-30 yellow petals. [5] The androeceum consists of 50 stamens. [8] The gynoecium consists of 7-10 carpels. [5] The spheroid or ovoid fruit bears 3–5 mm long, and 3–5 mm wide seeds [11] with ...