Nymphaeaceae
In botany, Nymphaeaceae is the name of a family of plants which grow in water. The family is also called water-lily family.
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Their flowers suggest they are one of the earliest groups of angiosperms.[1] Modern genetic analyses by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group researchers has confirmed its basal position among flowering plants.[2][3][4]
Also, the Nymphaeaceae are more diverse and wdespread than other basal angiosperms.[5][6] Nymphaeaceae is in the order Nymphaeales. According to the most widely accepted flowering plant classification system, this is the second diverging group of angiosperms after Amborella.[2][3][4]
Nymphaeaceae Media
Flowering Barclaya longifolia specimen, Thailand
Flower of Victoria cruziana, Santa Cruz water lily
Flowering Euryale ferox specimen cultivated in the Botanischer Garten Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Flowering and fruiting Nuphar variegata specimen
Water lilies in Ontario, Canada
Fossil of Jaguariba wiersemana
Nymphéas, Monnet, 1915, Musée Marmottan Monet.
Maya iconography with water lilies
Coat of arms of Montederramo, Ourense.
Lily pads floating in a lake in Toronto, Canada
Time-lapse video of a water lily blooming
References
- ↑ Les, Donald H. et al 1999. Phylogeny, classification and floral evolution of water lilies (Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeales): a synthesis of non-molecular, rbcL, matK, and 18S rDNA Data. Systematic Botany 24 (1) 28-46.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 As easy as APG III - Scientists revise the system of classifying flowering plants, The Linnean Society of London, 2009-10-08, retrieved 2009-10-29
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 APG III tidies up plant family tree, Horticulture Week, 2009-10-08, retrieved 2009-10-29
- ↑ Coiro, Mario & Maria Rosaria Barone Lumaga 2013. Aperture evolution in Nymphaeaceae: insights from a micromorphological and ultrastructural investigation, Grana, DOI:10.1080/00173134.2013.769626
- ↑ Pellicer, Jaume et al 2013. Insights into the dynamics of genome size and chromosome evolution in the early diverging angiosperm lineage Nymphaeales (water lilies). Genome. 10.1139/gen-2013-0039