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Nymphaea alba

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
Links to other databases
Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Details Top

Internal ID UUID643ff66880446944498393
Scientific name Nymphaea alba
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 510 (1753)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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General Uses Top

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Common products:
• No well-documented commercial or industrial products are attributed specifically to Nymphaea alba. It is cultivated as an ornamental in aquatic horticulture, but this falls outside the scope of commercial non-medicinal product uses.

Industrial and craft applications:
• None documented.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
• None documented.

Colorants and tanning:
• None documented.

Wood and fiber:
• None documented.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
• None documented.

Properties relevant to use:
• None documented.

Standards and regulation:
• None documented.

Sustainability and sourcing:
• None documented.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Nymphaea suaveolens Dumort. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 3: 7 (1864)
Nymphaea splendens Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 603 (1848)
Nymphaea venusta Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 699 (1848)
Nymphaea urceolata Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 699 (1848)
Nymphaea neglecta Hausl. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 8: 906 (1850)
Nymphaea minoriflora (Simonk.) Wissjul. Fl. RSS Ucr. 5: 7 (1953)
Nymphaea milletii Boreau Mém. Soc. Acad. Maine Loire 6: 37 (1859)
Nymphaea occidentalis Moss Cambr. Brit. Fl. 3: 99 (1920)
Nymphaea kosteletzkyi Paillard ex Lehm. Index Seminum (HBG, Hamburgensis) 1852: 10 (1852)
Nymphaea melocarpa Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Nordostdeut. Flachl. : 319 (1898)
Nymphaea rotundifolia Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 700 (1848)
Nymphaea permixta Boreau Mém. Soc. Acad. Maine Loire 6: 37 (1859)
Nymphaea parviflora Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 700 (1848)
Nymphaea polystigma E.H.L.Krause Deutschl. Fl. Abbild. , ed. 2, 5: 211 (1901)
Nymphaea officinalis Gaterau Descr. Pl. Montauban : 99 (1789)
Nymphaea exumbonata Rupr. Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 12: 219 (1854)
Nymphaea erythrocarpa Hentze Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 747 (1852)
Nymphaea basniniana Turcz. Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15: 93 (1842)
Nymphaea biradiata Sommerauer Flora 16: 625 (1833)
Leuconymphaea alba (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 11 (1891)
Castalia alba Greene Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15(3): 85. 1888 [2 Mar 1888]
Castalia biradiata Hayek. Fl. Steiermark 1: 436 (1908)
Castalia speciosa Salisb. Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2: 72 (1806)
Castalia minoriflora Simonk. Magyar Bot. Lapok 7: 131 1908
Nymphaea alba subsp. minoriflora (Simonk.) Stucchi Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. II, 62: 360 1956
Nymphaea alba var. rubra Lönnr. Bot. Not. 1856: 124 1856

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English european white waterlily
English white water-lily
Spanish nenúfar blanco europeo
Spanish escudillos
Spanish adarga de rio
Spanish adarga de río
Spanish escudetes de rio
Spanish escudetes de río
Spanish flores de escudete
Spanish flores nenufares
Spanish flores nenúfares
Spanish golfan
Spanish golfán
Spanish golfan blanco
Spanish golfán blanco
Spanish higos de agua
Spanish higos de rio
Spanish higos de río
Spanish ninfa blanca
Spanish ninfa de la flor blanca
Spanish rosa de venus
Spanish yerba de adarga
Arabic نيلوفر أبيض
Arabic عروس النيل
Arabic زهر النيل
Arabic حشيشة السمك
atj arikitcac
Azerbaijani ağ suzanbağı
Belarusian Гарлачык белы
Bulgarian Бяла водна лилия
Bulgarian Лилия
Bulgarian бяла водна лилия
Bosnian bazne angiosperme
Catalan nenúfar blanc
Catalan nénuphar blanc
Czech leknín bílý
Welsh alaw
Danish hvid nøkkerose
Danish nøkkerose
Danish hvid åkande
German weisse seerose
German weiße seerose
German nénuphar blanc
Estonian valge vesiroos
Estonian castalia alba
Basque nenufar zuria
Persian نیلوفر آبی سفید
Finnish isolumme
Finnish lumme
Finnish valkolumme
French nénuphar blanc
French nénufar blanc
French nenuphar blanc
frr puulepaap
fy wite wetterleelje
Galician tapadeira
Hebrew נימפאה לבנה
Upper Sorbian wulka bónčawa
Upper Sorbian běła bónčawa
Upper Sorbian hatna husyčka
Upper Sorbian hatna knježička
Upper Sorbian hatna lilija
Upper Sorbian wódna kanka
Upper Sorbian wódna knježička
Upper Sorbian wódna lilija
Hungarian fehér tündérrózsa
Hungarian fehér tavirózsa
Armenian Ջրաշուշան սպիտակ
Italian ninfea comune
Japanese セイヨウスイレン
Kazakh Ақ тұңғиық
Lithuanian paprastoji vandens lelija
Lithuanian nénuphar blanc
Macedonian Бел воден лилјан
Macedonian Бел воден божур
mnw သွာ၊ တၞံ
Burmese ကြာညို
Norwegian Bokmål hvit nøkkerose
Norwegian Bokmål hvit vannlilje
Norwegian Bokmål kvit nøkkerose
Norwegian Bokmål kvit vannlilje
Norwegian Bokmål stor nøkkerose
Dutch witte waterlelie
Norwegian Nynorsk kvit nøkkerose
Norwegian Nynorsk stor nøkkerose
Norwegian Nynorsk kvit nykkerose
os Урс дурындзæг
Polish grzybienie białe
Polish lilia wodna
Polish grzybień biały
Polish nenufar
Polish nenufary
Punjab چٹی اپسرا
Portuguese ninfeia branca
Romanian nufăr alb
Russian Кувшинка белая
Russian белая кувшинка
Russian водяная лилия
Russian кувшинка белая
se stuorraloppan
Serbo-Croatian beli lokvanj
Serbo-Croatian bijeli lokvanj
Serbo-Croatian lopoč
Slovak lekno biele
Slovenian beli lokvanj
Serbian Бели локвањ
Serbian бели локвањ
Swedish vit näckros
Swedish atlantnäckros
Swedish nénuphar blanc
Swedish nordnäckros
Swedish sydnäckros
Telugu తెల్ల కలువ
Turkish beyaz nilüfer
Ukrainian Латаття біле
Ukrainian біла лілія
Ukrainian біле латаття
Ukrainian біла водяна лілія
Ukrainian купава
Ukrainian латаття біле
Uzbek oq suv nilufari
vep kajageine
Vietnamese súng trắng
Chinese 白睡莲
Chinese 白睡蓮
Chinese 欧洲白睡莲

Subspecies (abbr. subsp./ssp.) Top

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Name Authority First published in
Nymphaea alba subsp. alba Unknown
Nymphaea alba subsp. occidentalis (Ostenf.) Hyl. Uppsala Univ. Årsskr. 7: 163 (1945)

Varieties (abbr. var.) Top

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Subvarieties (abbr. subvar.) Top

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Forms (abbr. f.) Top

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Germination/Propagation Top

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Africa
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • China North-central
      • China Southeast
    • Western Asia
      • Iran
      • Iraq
      • Lebanon-Syria
      • Palestine
      • Turkey
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Bangladesh
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Myanmar
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Sicilia
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Chile Central
      • Chile South

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000381440
UNII BM1C2W1BL5
Canadensys 6717
USDA Plants NYAL
Tropicos 22600017
INPN 109750
Flora of Italy 981
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171158-2
The Plant List kew-2383355
PFAF Nymphaea alba
Open Tree Of Life 1081719
NCBI Taxonomy 34301
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002757
Nature Serve 2.134734
IUCN Red List 164237
IPNI 171158-2
iNaturalist 62009
GBIF 2882437
Freebase /m/03ttl3
EPPO NYMAL
EOL 486305
Elurikkus 5907
Calflora (Californian flora) 8654
USDA GRIN 25429
Wikipedia Nymphaea_alba
Plantarium 25195

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

No reference genome is available on NCBI yet. We are constantly monitoring for new data.

Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Main Poisonous and Allergenic Plant Species in Sicilian Gardens and Parks: Applications and Recommendations for Use Domina G, Di Gristina E, Barone G Plants (Basel) 05-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11013740
doi:10.3390/plants13071031
PMID:38611560
Plants in Menstrual Diseases: A Systematic Study from Italian Folk Medicine on Current Approaches Mazzei R, Genovese C, Magariello A, Patitucci A, Russo G, Tagarelli G Plants (Basel) 22-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10935160
doi:10.3390/plants13050589
PMID:38475436
Fungal Endophytes: Discovering What Lies within Some of Canada’s Oldest and Most Resilient Grapevines Ali S, Wright AH, Tanney JB, Renaud JB, Sumarah MW J Fungi (Basel) 26-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10890244
doi:10.3390/jof10020105
PMID:38392777
Initial decomposition of floating leaf blades of Nymphoides peltata (S.G. Gmel.) O. Kuntze (Menyanthaceae): causes, impact and succession Klok PF, van der Velde G PeerJ 21-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10749093
doi:10.7717/peerj.16689
PMID:38144198
Discovery of novel neutral glycosphingolipids in cereal crops: rapid profiling using reversed-phased HPLC–ESI–QqTOF with parallel reaction monitoring Yu D, Boughton BA, Rupasinghe TW, Hill CB, Herrfurth C, Scholz P, Feussner I, Roessner U Sci Rep 19-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10728066
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-49981-7
PMID:38110595
Community structure, environmental conditions and anthropogenic pressure on the habitat of the European endemic aquatic plant Luronium natans (L.) Raf. Banaś K, Ronowski R, Chmara R, Szmeja J BMC Plant Biol 28-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10683176
doi:10.1186/s12870-023-04518-y
PMID:38017375
Plants as Symbols of Power in the Achaemenid Iconography of Ancient Persian Monuments Caneva G, Lazzara A, Hosseini Z Plants (Basel) 27-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10707779
doi:10.3390/plants12233991
PMID:38068625
Botanical memory: five centuries of floristic changes revealed by a Renaissance herbarium (Ulisse Aldrovandi, 1551–1586) Buldrini F, Alessandrini A, Mossetti U, Muzzi E, Pezzi G, Soldano A, Nascimbene J R Soc Open Sci 08-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10645095
doi:10.1098/rsos.230866
PMID:38026021
Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Protected Calcareous Fen Habitats: Assemblages, Environmental Drivers, Indicator Species, and Conservation Issues Buczyńska E, Tarkowski A, Sugier P, Płaska W, Zawal A, Janicka A, Buczyński P Insects 31-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10671576
doi:10.3390/insects14110850
PMID:37999048
Human consumption of seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants in ancient Europe Buckley S, Hardy K, Hallgren F, Kubiak-Martens L, Miliauskienė Ž, Sheridan A, Sobkowiak-Tabaka I, Subirà ME Nat Commun 17-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10582258
doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41671-2
PMID:37848451
Potential Implications of Hyperoside on Oxidative Stress-Induced Human Diseases: A Comprehensive Review Wang K, Zhang H, Yuan L, Li X, Cai Y J Inflamm Res 13-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10581022
doi:10.2147/JIR.S418222
PMID:37854313
Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns – investigating how α and β components of macrophyte functional diversity respond to environmental gradients in lotic ecosystems of Greece Stefanidis K, Oikonomou A, Dimitrellos G, Tsoukalas D, Papastergiadou E Front Plant Sci 08-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10514920
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1204383
PMID:37746009
Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota) Kuhn JH, Abe J, Adkins S, Alkhovsky SV, Avšič-Županc T, Ayllón MA, Bahl J, Balkema-Buschmann A, Ballinger MJ, Kumar Baranwal V, Beer M, Bejerman N, Bergeron É, Biedenkopf N, Blair CD, Blasdell KR, Blouin AG, Bradfute SB, Briese T, Brown PA, Buchholz UJ, Buchmeier MJ, Bukreyev A, Burt F, Büttner C, Calisher CH, Cao M, Casas I, Chandran K, Charrel RN, Kumar Chaturvedi K, Chooi KM, Crane A, Dal Bó E, Carlos de la Torre J, de Souza WM, de Swart RL, Debat H, Dheilly NM, Di Paola N, Di Serio F, Dietzgen RG, Digiaro M, Drexler JF, Duprex WP, Dürrwald R, Easton AJ, Elbeaino T, Ergünay K, Feng G, Firth AE, Fooks AR, Formenty PB, Freitas-Astúa J, Gago-Zachert S, Laura García M, García-Sastre A, Garrison AR, Gaskin TR, Gong W, Gonzalez JP, de Bellocq J, Griffiths A, Groschup MH, Günther I, Günther S, Hammond J, Hasegawa Y, Hayashi K, Hepojoki J, Higgins CM, Hongō S, Horie M, Hughes HR, Hume AJ, Hyndman TH, Ikeda K, Jiāng D, Jonson GB, Junglen S, Klempa B, Klingström J, Kondō H, Koonin EV, Krupovic M, Kubota K, Kurath G, Laenen L, Lambert AJ, Lǐ J, Li JM, Liu R, Lukashevich IS, MacDiarmid RM, Maes P, Marklewitz M, Marshall SH, Marzano SY, McCauley JW, Mirazimi A, Mühlberger E, Nabeshima T, Naidu R, Natsuaki T, Navarro B, Navarro JA, Neriya Y, Netesov SV, Neumann G, Nowotny N, Nunes MR, Ochoa-Corona FM, Okada T, Palacios G, Pallás V, Papa A, Paraskevopoulou S, Parrish CR, Pauvolid-Corrêa A, Pawęska JT, Pérez DR, Pfaff F, Plemper RK, Postler TS, Rabbidge LO, Radoshitzky SR, Ramos-González PL, Rehanek M, Resende RO, Reyes CA, Rodrigues TC, Romanowski V, Rubbenstroth D, Rubino L, Runstadler JA, Sabanadzovic S, Sadiq S, Salvato MS, Sasaya T, Schwemmle M, Sharpe SR, Shi M, Shimomoto Y, Kavi Sidharthan V, Sironi M, Smither S, Song JW, Spann KM, Spengler JR, Stenglein MD, Takada A, Takeyama S, Tatara A, Tesh RB, Thornburg NJ, Tian X, Tischler ND, Tomitaka Y, Tomonaga K, Tordo N, Tu C, Turina M, Tzanetakis IE, Maria Vaira A, van den Hoogen B, Vanmechelen B, Vasilakis N, Verbeek M, von Bargen S, Wada J, Wahl V, Walker PJ, Waltzek TB, Whitfield AE, Wolf YI, Xia H, Xylogianni E, Yanagisawa H, Yano K, Ye G, Yuan Z, Zerbini FM, Zhang G, Zhang S, Zhang YZ, Zhao L, Økland AL J Gen Virol 25-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10721048
doi:10.1099/jgv.0.001864
PMID:37622664
Homology judgements of pre-evolutionary naturalists explained by general human shape matching abilities Stegmann UE, Schmidt F Sci Rep 28-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10382571
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39036-2
PMID:37507447
Secondary metabolites related to the resistance of Psidium spp. against the nematode Meloidogyneenterolobii Costa SN, Silva MV, Ribeiro JM, Castro JM, Muzitano MF, Costa RG, Oliveira AE, Fernandes KV Heliyon 04-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10395151
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17778
PMID:37539183

Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Benzoic acids and derivatives / Hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives
4-Hydroxybenzoic acid 135 Click to see C1=CC(=CC=C1C(=O)O)O 138.12 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Benzoic acids and derivatives / Hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives / Gallic acid and derivatives / Gallic acids
Gallic Acid 370 Click to see 170.12 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Benzoic acids and derivatives / Hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives / Gallic acid and derivatives / Galloyl esters
Ethyl gallate 13250 Click to see CCOC(=O)C1=CC(=C(C(=C1)O)O)O 198.17 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
Methyl Gallate 7428 Click to see 184.15 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Benzoic acids and derivatives / Methoxybenzoic acids and derivatives / M-methoxybenzoic acids and derivatives
Vanillic Acid 8468 Click to see COC1=C(C=CC(=C1)C(=O)O)O 168.15 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Cinnamic acids and derivatives / Hydroxycinnamic acids and derivatives / Hydroxycinnamic acids
Ferulic Acid 445858 Click to see 194.18 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
P-Coumaric Acid 637542 Click to see 164.16 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Tannins / Hydrolyzable tannins
Ellagic Acid 5281855 Click to see C1=C2C3=C(C(=C1O)O)OC(=O)C4=CC(=C(C(=C43)OC2=O)O)O 302.19 unknown https://doi.org/10.5586/ASBP.1991.011

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