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Nymphaea pedersenii
Species of water lily From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nymphaea pedersenii is a species of waterlily native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay.[1]
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea pedersenii has ovoid to subglobose tubers.[2] The broadly elliptic leaf blade is up to 31 cm long and 22 cm wide.[3] The coriaceous blade of the floating leaves is connected to non-brittle, brownish, glabrescent, 7.1−10 mm wide petioles with a ring of trichomes at the apex. It has two primary central air and six secondary peripheral air canals.[2] The leaf venation is actinodromous.[4]
Generative characteristics
The nocturnal flowers float on the water surface.[4] The syncarpous gynoecium consists of approximately 39 carpels with clavate, cream-coloured, curved, 1.2−1.8 cm long and 2−4 mm wide appendages. The globose apex shows rosy colouration.[2] The ellipsoid, granulose, pilose seeds have trichomes arranged in continuous longitudinal lines.[4]
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Cytology
The diploid chromosome count is 2n = 18.[3]
Reproduction
Vegetative reproduction
In Argentina, the main mode of reproduction relies on stolon formation.[3] Proliferating pseudanthia are absent.[2]
Generative reproduction
This species is not autogamous and outcrossing is obligatory.[3] Flowering occurs throughout the year.[2]
Taxonomy
It was first described by Wiersema in 1987 as Nymphaea amazonum subsp. pedersenii, but later it was elevated to a separate species Nymphaea pedersenii by C.T.Lima and Ana Maria Giulietti in 2021.[1]
Type specimen
The type specimen was collected by Wiersema, Vanni and Schinini in a lagoon in Itatí, Corrientes, Argentina on the 15th of April 1982.[3]
Placement within Nymphaea
It is placed in Nymphaea subg. Hydrocallis.[3]
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Etymology
The specific epithet pedersenii honours Troels Myndel Pedersen.[3]
Ecology
Habitat
In Brazil, it was observed in a stream with up to 3 m depth in the state Pará and in permanent or temporary lagoons in the Pantanal.[2] In Argentina, it was observed growing in a lagoon.[3]
Pollination
It is pollinated by the beetle species Cyclocephala mollis.[3] Beetles have been found trapped within the flowers.[2]
References
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