Ficha de la especie

Nombre aceptado
Nymphaea lotus L. Especie
Nombres comunes
Loto, Lotus africano blanco
Reino
Plantae
División
Tracheophyta
Clase
Magnoliopsida
Orden
Nymphaeales
Familia
Nymphaeaceae
Género
Nymphaea
Hábitat
Freshwater, Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
Distribución
Africa; Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China); North America; Oceania; Hungary [I]; NW-Romania [I]; Egypt (Great Southwestern Desert, Nile Delta, Nile Valley, NW-coastal Egypt); Mauritania; Senegal; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Burkina Faso; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Togo; Benin; Niger; Nigeria; Cameroon; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo]; Gabon; Congo [Brazzaville]; Central African Republic; Cabinda; D.R.Congo [Zaire]; Chad; Sudan; South Sudan; Ethiopia; Somalia; Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania; Angola; Zambia; Malawi; Zimbabwe; Mozambique; Namibia; Botswana; South Africa (Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal); Eswatini [Swaziland]; Madagascar; Mauritius [I]; Sinai peninsula (N-Sinai); Ryukyu Isl. [I]; Taiwan [I]; Austral Isl. [I] (Tubuai [I]); Hawaii [I] (Oahu [I]); USA [I] (Florida [I], Louisiana [I]); Costa Rica [I]; Panama [I]; Colombia [I]; Venezuela [I]; Guyana [I]; Surinam [I]; Brazil [I]
Publicado en
L. (1753). In: Sp. Pl.: 511.

Multimedia y observaciones

Acuática (Lista de flora acuática continental de Colombia)

Perennial herb, in pond and river beds, and in swamps. C. N.: mbandu, njimbandu (kb). Uses: food, medicinal. Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017) (An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola)

GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-11-09. Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2882429 https://www.gbif.org/species/2882429 · Última actualización: 9 nov 2026, 3:30