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Nelumbo
Taxonomy
Nelumbo was named by Adanson (1763). It is extant.
It was assigned to Nymphaeaceae by Knowlton (1919) and Hickey (1977); and to Nelumbonaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Chauhan (1991), Srivastava (1991), McIver and Basinger (1993) and Liu et al. (1996).
It was assigned to Nymphaeaceae by Knowlton (1919) and Hickey (1977); and to Nelumbonaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Chauhan (1991), Srivastava (1991), McIver and Basinger (1993) and Liu et al. (1996).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1763 | Nelumbo Adanson |
| 1919 | Nelumbo Knowlton |
| 1976 | Nelumbo Lakhanpal et al. |
| 1977 | Nelumbo Hickey |
| 1991 | Nelumbo Chauhan |
| 1991 | Nelumbo Srivastava |
| 1993 | Nelumbo McIver and Basinger |
| 1996 | Nelumbo Liu et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Nelumbo Adanson 1763
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†Nelumbo aureavallis Hickey 1977
†Nelumbo intermedia Knowlton 1900
†Nelumbo kempii Hollick 1893
†Nelumbo lakesiana Lesquereux 1873
†Nelumbo laramiensis Hollick 1894
†Nelumbo nangalensis Bhattacharyya 1983
Nelumbo nucifera Gaertner 1788
†Nelumbo protolutea Berry 1918
†Nelumbo puertae Gandolfo and Cuneo 2005
†Nelumbo pygmaea Dawson 1890
†Nelumbo saskatchuense Dawson 1887
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Cenomanian to the top of the Holocene or 100.50000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 99.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 99.6 Ma
Collections (41 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Albian | USA (Wyoming) | N. weymouthii (31174) | |
| Cenomanian | USA (Wyoming) | N. weymouthi (34972) | |
| Late/Upper Cretaceous - Early/Lower Paleocene | Argentina (Chubut) | N. puertae (195707) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Montana) | N. peltata (27363) | |
| Lancian | USA (North Dakota) | N. FU062 (25448 25913) N. FU085 (25465) N. FU62 (48184 48185 48216 48271 48272) N. FU62, N. HC202 (48191 48273) | |
| Lancian | USA (South Dakota) | N. FU62 (48193) | |
| Puercan | USA (North Dakota) | N. FU062 (25449 25469 25470) N. FU085 (25466) N. FU62 (48180) | |
| Puercan | USA (Wyoming) | N. sp. 1 (11335) | |
| Paleocene | Canada (Saskatchewan) | N. sp. (34417) | |
| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Nelumbium pygmaeum (121046) | |
| Eocene | India (Meghalaya) | N. nangalensis (225784) N. sp. (224709) | |
| Eocene | China (Jilin) | N. nipponica (223891) | |
| Eocene | Japan (Yamaguchi) | N. sp. (24467) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (North Dakota) | N. aureavallis (10971 10972 10973 10976) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Hainan) | N. protospeciosa (223825) | |
| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | China (Liaoning) | N. protoluteum (223815) | |
| Miocene - Oligocene | USA (Montana) | N. sp. (23975) | |
| Miocene | USA (Montana) | N. sp. (23973) | |
| Zanclean | Germany (North Rhine) | N. sp. (28134) | |
| Zanclean - Pliocene | Germany (North Rhine) | N. sp. (28171) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Japan (Kyoto City) | N. sp. (168071) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Kashmir) | N. nucifera (224614) | |
| Quaternary | India (Rajasthan) | N. sp. (228811) | |
| Holocene | India (Uttarakhand) | N. sp. (228762) |