Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor

Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor is a variety of the water lily species Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f. naturally found in tropical Asia.^[1]

Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Order:	Nymphaeales
Family:	Nymphaeaceae
Genus:	Nymphaea
Subgenus:	Nymphaea subg. Brachyceras
Species:	N. nouchali
Variety:	N. n. var. versicolor
Trinomial name
Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor (Sims) Guruge & Yakand.[1]
Synonyms[1]
Castalia versicolor (Sims) Tratt. Nymphaea stellata var. versicolor (Sims) Hook.f. & Thomson Nymphaea versicolor Sims Nymphaea malabarica Poir.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor is an aquatic, perennial herb.^[2][3]

Generative characteristics

The flowers are diurnal.^[3][2] The seeds are ellipsoid-globose.^[2]

Taxonomy

Publication

It was described as Nymphaea versicolor Sims by John Sims (1749-1831) in 1809. Later, it was included in the species Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f. as the variety Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor (Sims) Guruge & Yakand. by Shashika Kumudumali Guruge and Deepthi Yakandawala in 2017.
Its synonym Nymphaea malabarica Poir. was published even earlier by Jean Louis Marie Poiret in 1798.^[4][5][6]

Etymology

The varietal name versicolor, from the Latin verso meaning to keep turning and colorem meaning colour, means "variously coloured" or "changing colour".^[7][8][9]

Ecology

Habitat

It occurs in rice fields, swamps, marshes,^[3] and ponds.^[2]