Nymphaea alba and hybrids L. APNI* 
Description: Perennials with strong, vigorous horizontal rhizomes producing roots all along.
Leaves broad-elliptic to circular, with a radial slit, to 20 cm long, margins slightly sinuate.
Flowers cream, white, pink, red, or orange. Stamens flattened, loculi joined laterally, anther appendages mostly present. Ovary globose with 10–20 stigmatic lobes.
Seeds mostly not formed.
Distribution and occurrence: Generally cultivated, occasionally maintaining itself vegetatively after introduction into water bodies.
NSW subdivisions: *NWP, *SWP
Plants of Nymphaea alba cultivated in Australia are of hybrid origin. These horticultural hybrids can have complex parentage and often display broad morphological variation. To explain this variation, NSW lists the taxon as N. alba and hybrids; in the literature and other States, this is equivalent to just N. alba.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs; update A.E. Orme (2024)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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