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3. Nymphaea alba L., Sp. Pl. 510. 1753. Hook.f. & Thoms., in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 114.1872, Tutin in Tutin et al. 1: 204.1964, Coode & Cullen in Davis, Fl. Turkey, 1: 206. 1965, Stewart in Nasir & Ali, Ann. Catalogue Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 256. 1972.
M. QAISER
Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270.
Castalia alba Woodville & Wood
Perennial, with horizontal rhizome. Leaves with long petioles, floating, suborbicular, cordate-oval, 10-25 (-30) cm in diameter, with divergent lobes. Flowers 10-20 cm in diameter ± scented, sepals oblong, lanceolate, white-yellowish green, obscurely veined. Petals many, white or somewhat yellowish, oblong. Stamens many in 3 rows, without appendages, filaments of the inner stamens are usually as broad as anthers. Stigmas flat, rays 8-20, yellow. Fruit globose, green, seeds many, ellipsoid, 2-3 mm.
Type: Described from Lapland, Hb. Linn. 673.1 (LINN).
B-8 Kashmir, Srinagar, Woolar lake, J. F. Duthie 10858 (BM). Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan (Kashmir).
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