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Nymphaea gigantea (Red and blue water lily)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Nymphaea gigantea is a species of aquatic perennial herbaceous plant native to Australia and New Guinea. The plant is a tropical and substropical species that establishes tubers in the muddy bottoms of still waters; its leaves are round, and grow up to 75 cm in diameter, and the large flowers are blue-white.
View Wikipedia Record: Nymphaea gigantea

Infraspecies

Nymphaea gigantea f. gigantea
Nymphaea gigantea f. hudsonii

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Coastal Australia Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0