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Nelumbonaceae

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Description

Nelumbonaceae, sometimes called the sacred lotus family, is a family of flowering plants, including the single genus Nelumbo with two species, N. lutea (North America) and N. nucifera (widespread in tropical Asia).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbonaceae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2424	https://www.gbif.org/species/2424
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	55399	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55399

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Proteales : Nelumbonaceae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Plantae : Spermatophyta : Magnoliopsida : Proteales : Nelumbonaceae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
kingdom	Plantae	Haeckel 1866
phylum	Spermatophyta
class	Magnoliopsida	Cronquist et al. 1996
-	Eudicot	Doyle and Hotton 1991
order	Proteales	Jussieu 1829
family	Nelumbonaceae	Richard 1827

Scientific Name

Nelumbonaceae

Name Published In

in J. B. G. M. Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 11: 492. 10 Feb

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nelumbonaceae	family	belongs to Nymphaeales	stated without evidence	McIver and Basinger, 1993
Nelumbonaceae	family	belongs to Nelumbonales	stated without evidence	Mabberley, 2000
Nelumbonaceae	family	belongs to Proteales	implied	Taylor et al., 2008
Nelumbonaceae	family	belongs to Proteales	stated without evidence	Jud, 2011

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D.J. Mabberley. 2000. The Plant-Book, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Common Name(s)

Indian Lotus, Lotus-lily Family, Nélumbonacées

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbonaceae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Exnelumbites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nelumbago genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nelumbium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Nelumbo genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		34	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Nelubium palaeocenicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Serenopsis kempii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1827	Nelumbonaceae Richard
1993	Nelumbonaceae McIver and Basinger
2000	Nelumbonaceae Mabberley
2008	Nelumbonaceae Taylor et al. p. 1029
2011	Nelumbonaceae Jud

References

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

McIver E. E., Basinger J. F. (1993) Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, Palaeontographica Canadiana 10, 1-85

Taylor E., Taylor T., et al (2008) Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, 1-1230

Jud N. A. (2011) Unpublished taxonomic opinions

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Reveal, J. L. (2006). USDA - APHIS - Concordance of Family Names, 2006 version. Available online at http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/usda/usdaindex.html. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per included genera - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in J. B. G. M. Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 11: 492. 10 Feb - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. (2009). An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161(2): 105-121. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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!

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