
This subgenus appears to be phylogenetically sound. It is classified in the Nymphaea subgenus Brachyceras. caerulea as this name has priority over N. nouchali belong to another species than the Asian and Australian type populations, and should likely be renamed N. If the 2012 study is to be accepted, this may indicate that the African populations of N. petersiana, was found to be quite divergent in the 2012 study. caerulea, the most widespread, ovalifolia, in parts of tropical Southern Africa, petersiana, the same, zanzibarensis, from tropical southern, central and East Africa, and mutandaensis, which is an endemic of Uganda.

In Africa, following the 1989 FTEA publication, five different varieties are recognised: var. stellata) and has a long history of cultivation. It has many colour forms (with red-coloured forms generally called N. Nymphaea nouchali is itself a taxonomically challenging species, with a distribution that spans Australia, throughout southern Asia, across Africa to the Western Cape. Another phylogenetic study from 2021 found N. caerulea was cited under that name, not as N. When genomes from the water lily genus ( Nymphaea) were published in the journal Nature in 2020, N. caerulea should not be considered as a variety of N. The evolutionary tree was a consensus of ITS2 and matk. gracilis, an endemic of northern Mexico, than it was to N. In 2012 there was a phylogenetic study where N. caerulea in the 1989 addition to the Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA) series, a position which has generally been accepted, although some of the authorities in Bangladesh and in the United States disagree. capensis, found throughout eastern, central and southern Africa, as well as a number of other named taxa, were synonymised to N. Nymphaea spectabilis, a purple form known from cultivation, and N. Like other species in the genus, the plant contains the psychoactive alkaloid aporphine (not to be confused with apomorphine, a metabolic product of aporphine). It is associated with a species of snail, which is one of the main hosts of the pathogen causing human schistosomiasis.

It can tolerate the roots being in anoxic mud in nutritionally poor conditions, and can become a dominant plant in deeper water in such habitats. It was grown by the Ancient Egyptian civilization, and had significance in their religion. It is an aquatic plant of freshwater lakes, pools and rivers, naturally found throughout most of the eastern half of Africa, as well as parts of southern Arabia, but has also been spread to other regions as an ornamental plant. caerulea, is a water lily in the genus Nymphaea, a botanical variety of Nymphaea nouchali.


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