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Nelumbonaceae (lotus)
Taxonomy
Nelumbonaceae was named by Richard (1827). It is extant.
It was assigned to Nymphaeales by McIver and Basinger (1993); to Nelumbonales by Mabberley (2000); and to Proteales by Taylor et al. (2008), Jud (2011) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
It was assigned to Nymphaeales by McIver and Basinger (1993); to Nelumbonales by Mabberley (2000); and to Proteales by Taylor et al. (2008), Jud (2011) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1827 | Nelumbonaceae Richard |
| 1993 | Nelumbonaceae McIver and Basinger |
| 2000 | Nelumbonaceae Mabberley |
| 2008 | Nelumbonaceae Taylor et al. p. 1029 |
| 2011 | Nelumbonaceae Jud |
| 2016 | Nelumbonaceae The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group p. 16 |
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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.
Fm. Nelumbonaceae Richard 1827 [lotus]
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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 (54 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Albian | USA (Wyoming) | Nelumbo weymouthii (31174) | |
| Cenomanian | USA (Wyoming) | Nelumbo weymouthi (34972) | |
| Late/Upper Cretaceous - Early/Lower Paleocene | Argentina (Chubut) | Nelumbo puertae, Nelumbopollenites patagonicus (195707) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Montana) | Nelumbo peltata (27363) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (New Mexico) | Exnelumbites indet. (116358) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Mexico | Exnelumbites callejasiae (116357) | |
| Maastrichtian | Argentina (Chubut) | Nelumbopollenites patagonicus (31653 199410) | |
| Lancian | USA (North Dakota) | Nelumbo FU062 (25448 25913) Nelumbo FU085 (25465) Nelumbo FU62 (48184 48185 48216 48271 48272) Nelumbo FU62, Nelumbo HC202 (48191 48273) | |
| Lancian | USA (South Dakota) | Nelumbo FU62 (48193) | |
| Puercan | USA (North Dakota) | Nelumbo FU062 (25449 25469 25470) Nelumbo FU085 (25466) Nelumbo FU62 (48180) | |
| Puercan | USA (Wyoming) | Nelumbo sp. 1 (11335) | |
| Early/Lower Paleocene | USA (North Dakota) | Nelumbium montanum (129230) | |
| Early/Lower Paleocene | USA (Montana) | Nelumbium montanum (53946 53957) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | Nelumbium montanum (57957) | |
| Paleocene | USA (South Dakota) | Nelumbium montanum (58039) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Montana) | Nelumbium montanum (40274 40445 53690) | |
| Paleocene | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Nelumbago montanum (34419) Nelumbo sp., Nelumbago montanum (34417) | |
| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Nelumbium pygmaeum (121046) | |
| Eocene | Japan (Yamaguchi) | Nelumbo sp. (24467) | |
| Eocene | India (Meghalaya) | Nelumbo nangalensis (225784) Nelumbo sp. (224709) | |
| Eocene | China (Jilin) | Nelumbo nipponica (223891) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (North Dakota) | Nelumbo aureavallis (10971 10972 10973 10976) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Hainan) | Nelumbo protospeciosa (223825) | |
| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | China (Liaoning) | Nelumbo protoluteum (223815) | |
| Miocene - Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Nelumbo sp. (23975) | |
| Miocene | USA (Montana) | Nelumbo sp. (23973) | |
| Zanclean | Germany (North Rhine) | Nelumbo sp. (28134) | |
| Zanclean - Pliocene | Germany (North Rhine) | Nelumbo sp. (28171) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Japan (Kyoto City) | Nelumbo sp. (168071) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Kashmir) | Nelumbo nucifera (224614) | |
| Quaternary | India (Rajasthan) | Nelumbo sp. (228811) | |
| Holocene | India (Uttarakhand) | Nelumbo sp. (228762) |