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Nelumbo
| Description | Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though "lotus" is a name also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae ("water lilies"), but Nelumbo is actually very distant to Nymphaeaceae. "Nelumbo" is derived from the Sinhalese word Sinhala: නෙළුම් neḷum, the name for the lotus Nelumbo nucifera. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Proteales : Nelumbonaceae : Nelumbo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Spermatophyta : Magnoliopsida : Proteales : Nelumbonaceae : Nelumbo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Nelumbo Adans. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 105 - 100 Ma Cretaceous | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | L. J. Hickey. 1977. Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota. The Geological Society of America Memoir 150:1-183 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Lotus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Nelumbo aureavallis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 55.8 Ma Eocene | |
| Nelumbo crossii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo kempii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo laramiensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo lutea species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo nucifera species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo protolutea species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo puertae ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Nelumbo spec species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nelumbo weymouthi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1977 | Nelumbo Hickey |
| 1993 | Nelumbo McIver and Basinger |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
