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Nymphaea nouchali var. mutandaensis is a variety of the water lily species Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f. endemic to Uganda. [2] Description. Vegetative characteristics
The first meaning is Nymphaea nouchali, the "blue lotus", also known as kuvalaya in Sanskrit. [1] [2] The second meaning of utpala is a variety of medicinal plant known as ' kooṭh ' in Hindi and ' kusṭham, vyādhi, paribhavyam or pāribhavyam, vāpyam, pākalam' according to Amarkośa. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Nymphaea nouchali, often known by its synonym Nymphaea stellata, or by common names blue lotus, [3] star lotus, red water lily, dwarf aquarium lily, blue water lily, blue star water lily or manel flower, is a water lily of genus Nymphaea.
Complete specimen of Nymphaea cf. gardneriana Planch. with several floating leaves, as well as submerged leaves with scale bar (50 cm) on a white background Complete specimen of Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea (Savigny) Verdc. with scale bar (50 cm) on a white background Rhizome of Nymphaea gigantea "Albert De Lestang" with scale bar (5 cm) against a grey background Seeds of Nymphaea alba with ...
Blue lotus may refer to: . Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea, a water lily in the genus Nymphaea that was known to the Ancient Egyptian civilizations; Nymphaea nouchali, a water lily of genus Nymphaea that is native to southern and eastern parts of Asia, containing the sedating alkaloids apomorphine and nuciferine
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Nymphaea nouchali is the national flower of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The national flower of Sri Lanka is Nil mānel (නිල් මානෙල්), the blue-star water-lily (Nymphaea stellata). [33] [34] Although nil means "blue" in Sinhala, the Sinhalese name of this plant is often rendered as "water-lily" in English.
Later, it was included in the species Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f. as the variety Nymphaea nouchali var. versicolor (Sims) Guruge & Yakand. by Shashika Kumudumali Guruge and Deepthi Yakandawala in 2017. Its synonym Nymphaea malabarica Poir. was published even earlier by Jean Louis Marie Poiret in 1798. [4] [5] [6]