Fiche de l'espèce

Nom accepté
Nymphaea lotus L. Espèce
Noms vernaculaires
Lotier d'egypte, Lotus d'Égypte, lotus tigré, nénuphar blanc, Nymphée lotus, Nénufar, Nénuphar
Règne
Plantae
Embranchement
Tracheophyta
Classe
Magnoliopsida
Ordre
Nymphaeales
Famille
Nymphaeaceae
Genre
Nymphaea
Habitat
Freshwater, Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
Répartition
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]
Publié dans
L. (1753). In: Sp. Pl.: 511.

Médias et observations

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 · Dernière mise à jour 9 nov. 2026, 03:30