Artensteckbrief

Akzeptierter Name
Nymphaea lotus L. Art
Trivialnamen
Ägyptische lotosblume, Weiße ägyptische seerose, Weißer ägyptischer lotus
Reich
Plantae
Abteilung
Tracheophyta
Klasse
Magnoliopsida
Ordnung
Nymphaeales
Familie
Nymphaeaceae
Gattung
Nymphaea
Lebensraum
Freshwater, Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
Verbreitung
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]
Erstveröffentlicht in
L. (1753). In: Sp. Pl.: 511.

Bilder und Beobachtungen

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 · Zuletzt aktualisiert 09.11.2026, 03:30