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Internal ID UUID643ff679f2e98050339987
Scientific name Nymphaea mexicana
Authority Zucc.
First published in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 1: 365 (1829-1830 publ. 1832)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Nymphaea planchonii Casp. ex Conard Waterlilies : 164 (1905)
Leuconymphaea mexicana Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 11 (1891)
Leuconymphaea flava (Greene) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 11 (1891)
Castalia flava Greene Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 85 (1888)
Castalia mexicana J.M.Coult. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 2: 12 (1891)
Nymphaea flava Leitner ex Audubon The Birds of America folio edn, 4 1838
Nymphaea lutea Treat Harper's New Monthly Mag. 55: 365 (-368) (1877)

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Language Common/alternative name
English yellow waterlily
Afrikaans geelwaterlelie
Azerbaijani meksika suzambağı
Azerbaijani meksika suzanbağı
German mexikanische seerose
Persian نیلوفر آبی موزی
Punjab میکسیکی اپسرا
Vietnamese súng vàng
Chinese 黄睡莲
Chinese 墨西哥黃金蓮

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  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • Queensland
      • Victoria
    • New Zealand
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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Oklahoma
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Louisiana
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000382081
Florida Plant Atlas 769
Flora of Alabama 2705
Canadensys 6719
USDA Plants NYME
Tropicos 22600023
Flora of Italy 982
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171199-2
The Plant List kew-2384423
Open Tree Of Life 875828
NCBI Taxonomy 105594
Nature Serve 2.136017
IPNI 171199-2
iNaturalist 78236
GBIF 2882420
Freebase /m/02qvq07
EPPO NYMME
EOL 596467
Calflora (Californian flora) 5875
USDA GRIN 25439
Wikipedia Nymphaea_mexicana

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Flavonoids: A treasure house of prospective pharmacological potentials Hasnat H, Shompa SA, Islam MM, Alam S, Richi FT, Emon NU, Ashrafi S, Ahmed NU, Chowdhury MN, Fatema N, Hossain MS, Ghosh A, Ahmed F Heliyon 09-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10944245
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27533
PMID:38496846
Isolation and Characterization of Flavonoid Naringenin and Evaluation of Cytotoxic and Biological Efficacy of Water Lilly (Nymphaea mexicana Zucc.) Din S, Hamid S, Yaseen A, Yatoo AM, Ali S, Shamim K, Mahdi WA, Alshehri S, Rehman MU, Shah WA Plants (Basel) 19-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9780907
doi:10.3390/plants11243588
PMID:36559700
Phylogenomics as an effective approach to untangle cross-species hybridization event: A case study in the family Nymphaeaceae Cheng L, Han Q, Chen F, Li M, Balbuena TS, Zhao Y Front Genet 03-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9670182
doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.1031705
PMID:36406110
Organelle Genomes and Transcriptomes of Nymphaea Reveal the Interplay between Intron Splicing and RNA Editing He ZS, Zhu A, Yang JB, Fan W, Li DZ Int J Mol Sci 11-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8466565
doi:10.3390/ijms22189842
PMID:34576004
Development of cellulose nanocrystal-stabilized Pickering emulsions of massoia and nutmeg essential oils for the control of Aedes albopictus Seo SM, Lee JW, Shin J, Tak JH, Hyun J, Park IK Sci Rep 08-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8187374
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-91442-6
PMID:34103581
Wetland Restoration with Hydrophytes: A Review Rodrigo MA Plants (Basel) 21-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8223994
doi:10.3390/plants10061035
PMID:34063930
Ethanolic extract of Nymphaea lotus L. (Nymphaeaceae) leaves exhibits in vitro antioxidant, in vivo anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic activities on Jurkat and MCF-7 cancer cell lines N’guessan BB, Asiamah AD, Arthur NK, Frimpong-Manso S, Amoateng P, Amponsah SK, Kukuia KE, Sarkodie JA, Opuni KF, Asiedu-Gyekye IJ, Appiah-Opong R BMC Complement Med Ther 07-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7791887
doi:10.1186/s12906-020-03195-w
PMID:33413340
Phenolic Compounds Exerting Lipid-Regulatory, Anti-Inflammatory and Epigenetic Effects as Complementary Treatments in Cardiovascular Diseases Toma L, Sanda GM, Niculescu LS, Deleanu M, Sima AV, Stancu CS Biomolecules 21-Apr-2020
PMCID:PMC7226566
doi:10.3390/biom10040641
PMID:32326376
Assessment of Useful Alien Plant Species Cultivated and Managed in Rural Home Gardens of Limpopo Province, South Africa Silas Semenya S, Maroyi A Scientifica (Cairo) 20-Apr-2020
PMCID:PMC7204260
doi:10.1155/2020/3561306
PMID:32399313
The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants Zhang L, Chen F, Zhang X, Li Z, Zhao Y, Lohaus R, Chang X, Dong W, Ho SY, Liu X, Song A, Chen J, Guo W, Wang Z, Zhuang Y, Wang H, Chen X, Hu J, Liu Y, Qin Y, Wang K, Dong S, Liu Y, Zhang S, Yu X, Wu Q, Wang L, Yan X, Jiao Y, Kong H, Zhou X, Yu C, Chen Y, Li F, Wang J, Chen W, Chen X, Jia Q, Zhang C, Jiang Y, Zhang W, Liu G, Fu J, Chen F, Ma H, Van de Peer Y, Tang H Nature 18-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC7015852
doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1852-5
PMID:31853069
The complete chloroplast genome of tulip tree, Liriodendron tulifipera L. (Magnoliaceae): investigation of intra-species chloroplast variations Park J, Kim Y, Kwon W, Xi H, Kwon M Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 16-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC7687633
doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1598822
PMID:33365610
Ethnobotanical study of curative plants used by traditional healers to treat rhinitis in the Limpopo Province, South Africa Semenya SS, Maroyi A Afr Health Sci 01-Dec-2018
PMCID:PMC6354866
doi:10.4314/ahs.v18i4.29
PMID:30766574
Intergeneric Relationships within the Early-Diverging Angiosperm Family Nymphaeaceae Based on Chloroplast Phylogenomics He D, Gichira AW, Li Z, Nzei JM, Guo Y, Wang Q, Chen J Int J Mol Sci 28-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6320877
doi:10.3390/ijms19123780
PMID:30486510
Water lilies as emerging models for Darwin’s abominable mystery Chen F, Liu X, Yu C, Chen Y, Tang H, Zhang L Hortic Res 04-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5626932
doi:10.1038/hortres.2017.51
PMID:28979789
Flavonoids as Cytokine Modulators: A Possible Therapy for Inflammation-Related Diseases Leyva-López N, Gutierrez-Grijalva EP, Ambriz-Perez DL, Heredia JB Int J Mol Sci 09-Jun-2016
PMCID:PMC4926454
doi:10.3390/ijms17060921
PMID:27294919

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