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Nymphaea immutabilis S.W.L.Jacobs

Species

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Characteristics

Annual or perennial; rhizome globular. Leaf lamina to c. 70 cm wide, with regularly-spaced teeth to 4.5 mm long; undersurface glabrous. Flowers to 50 cm above water. Sepals 4, to 12 cm long, obtuse. Petals to 34, oblanceolate to spathulate, obtuse, white, with blue tinge, or blue, usually not fading with age. Stamens to c. 400; filaments cylindrical, to 32 mm long; anthers to 15 mm long, often apiculate. Carpels 9–20; sterile stigmatic lobes vestigial or obsolete. Fruit c. 5 cm diam. Seeds oblong, c. 4 mm long, c. 2.5 mm wide, with short, sparse to dense hairs in discontinuous or disorganised rows, sometimes almost appearing scattered, rarely glabrous.
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A herb which grows in water. It has an upright rounded rhizome or underground stem. This is 8 cm long. The leaves are about 70 cm across. They are round and with a split to the centre. The leaves float. They are green and there are evenly spaced teeth around the edge. These are about 0.45 cm long. The flowers are 12 cm across. They occur singly on stems about 50 cm above the water. There are 4 sepals and 34 petals. The sepals are 5 cm long and green with purple spots. The petals are mostly white. The flowers open during the day and close at night. The fruit is a berry about 5 cm across. It is round.
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Growth form herb
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in waterholes and pools.
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Grows in permanent or ephemeral waterholes.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or division of the rhizome.
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Images

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Distribution

Nymphaea immutabilis world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:960894-1
WFO ID wfo-0000382178
COL ID 486BN
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Synonyms

Nymphaea immutabilis Nymphaea lotus var. australis
WorldFloraDB 2024