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Nymphaeaceae Salisb. (スイレン科)






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

[Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)]
≈ 100 species in 8 genera in the world, 5 genera in Japan
Lifeform: Aquatic forbs, producing long leaf stalks, rhizomes in the muddy soil
Flower: trimerous hermaphrodite

1. sepal = 3, petal = 3. stamen = 12-18, apocarpous carpel ___ Subfam. Cabomboideae (ジュンサイ)

Brasenia Schreb. (ジュンサイ)

1. sepal = 4-6, petal and stamen = many

2. carpel apocarpous within inversed-conical torus, ovule in carpel = 1 ___ Subfam. Nelumbonoideae ハス

Nelumbo Bercht. et J. Presl (ハス) ⇒ separated to Nelumnbonaceae (ハス)

2. syncarpous carpel, multilocular. stigma gamophyllous and radial ___ Subfam. Nymphaeoideae

3. sepal = 5-6, flower yellow, ovary superior

Nuphar Sibth. et Sm. (コウホネ)

3. sepal = 4. ovary semi-inferior or inferior

4. ovary semi-inferior. perennial. no spines on the leaf

Nymphaea L. (スイレン)

4. ovary inferior. annual. spines on the leaf

Euryale Salisb. (E. ferox Salisb. オニバス), annual aquatic plants (→ Euryalaceae, when separated)


Victoria Lindley (オオオニバス)
V. amazonica (Poepp.) Sowerby (オオオニバス)
V. cruziana Orbigny (パラグアイオニバス)
Barclaya Wallich (Barclayaceae when separated), tropical Asia
Ondinea Hartog (when separated from Nymphaea)

Cabombaceae Rich. ex A.Rich. (ジュンサイ)

established by APG
Brasenia Schreb. (ジュンサイ)
consisting of one species in one genus
B. schreberi J. F. Gmel. (ジュンサイ)

Nelumbo Adans. (ハス): APG = Nelumnbonaceae (ハス科)


Engler: in Nymphaeaceae (スイレン科)
Cronquist/APG III: in Nelumnbonaceae (ハス科), separated from Nymphaeaceae
The family consisting of two species in one genus, Nelumbo, when Nelumnbonaceae is established
Nelumbo Adans. (ハス)
Lifeform: aquatic
N. lutea Willd. (キバナバス)
N. nucifera Gaertn. (ハス)

Nuphar Sibth. et Sm. (コウホネ)


Confusing group
N. japonica DC. (コウホネ/コオホネ)
N. oguraensis Miki (オグラコウホネ), south to Honshu

var. akiensis Shimoda (ベニオグラコウホネ)

N. submerusa Shiga et Kadono (シモツケコウホネ)
N. pumila (Timm) DC. (ネムロコウホネ)
N. subintegerrima (Casp.) Makino (ヒメコウホネ), Honshu and Shikoku

Nymphaea L. (スイレン, waterlily)


Approximately 50 species have been recorded from the world
One or two species, N. tetragona, are native to Japan
N. alba L. (セイヨウスイレン)
N. caerulea Savigny (ルリスイレン)

ssp. zanzibarensis (Casp.) S. W. L. Jacobs (アフリカスイレン)

N. capensis Thunb. (ケープスイレン)
N. flavovirens Lehm. (アサギスイレン)
N. lotus L. (ヨザキスイレン)
N. mexicana Zucc. (キバナスイレン)
N. nouchali Burm.f. (ホシザキスイレン)
N. odorata Aiton (ニオイスイレン)

ssp. tuberosa (Paine) Wiersema et Hellquist (アメリカスイレン)

N. rubra Roxb. ex Salisb. (アカバナスイレン)
N. tetragona Georgi (ヒツジグサ)

⇒ cultivated Nymphaea spp.

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