View source for Nuphar orbiculata

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|accepted_name=Nuphar orbiculata
|accepted_authority=(Small) Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser.
|place=8: 311. 1931 (as orbiculatum)
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nymphaea orbiculata
|authority=Small
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nuphar lutea subsp. orbiculata
|authority=(Small) E. O. Beal
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nymphaea bombycina
|authority=G. S. Miller & Standley
}}
|hierarchy=Nymphaeaceae;Nuphar;Nuphar orbiculata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nymphaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nuphar]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nuphar orbiculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>ca. 7-8 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b> mostly floating, occasionally submersed; petiole terete. <b>Leaf</b> blade abaxially and adaxially green, often suffused with purple, orbiculate or nearly so, 20-45 × 20-45 cm, 1-1.2 times as long as wide, sinus ca. 1/2 length of midrib, lobes approximate to overlapping; surfaces abaxially densely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> 4-8 cm diam.; sepals 6, abaxially green to adaxially yellow, never red-tinged toward base; petals oblong, thick; anthers 5-6 mm, longer than filaments. <b>Fruit</b> greenish or yellowish, cylindric to nearly globose, 3.5-5 cm, smooth basally, finely ribbed toward apex, slightly constricted below stigmatic disk; stigmatic disk green, yellow, or sometimes reddened, ca. 30-35 mm diam., undulate; stigmatic rays 12-28, linear or lanceolate, terminating 1-3 mm from margin of disk. <b>Seeds</b> 4-6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid spring–early fall.
|habitat=Acidic ponds
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|discussion=<p><i>Nuphar orbiculata</i> is perhaps best treated as a subspecies. Plants intermediate between it and <i>N. advena</i> occur in southern Georgia and northern Florida.</p>
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name=Nuphar orbiculata
|author=
|authority=(Small) Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Nuphar lutea subsp. orbiculata;Nymphaea bombycina
|basionyms=Nymphaea orbiculata
|family=Nymphaeaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid spring–early fall.
|habitat=Acidic ponds
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser.
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_507.xml
|genus=Nuphar
|species=Nuphar orbiculata
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