• Family : NYMPHAEACEAE
  (WATER-LILY FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Nymphaeaceae
• Species : Nymphaea rubra
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews
• Common name : Red Water-Lily
• Key identification features : A red flowered water lily. Leaves are reddish, greenish-brown, hairy beneath. Flowers are purplish-red, opens at night and mildly fragrant. Similar to N.pubescens Willd. but differs mainly in colour of leaves, flowers and in being completely sterile. N.rubra Roxb. ex Andrews originally claimed to be a native of Bengal, never sets fruits in nature and appears to be an obligate apomictic species.
• Habit : Herb-Aquatic
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Comments : Occasional in water holding tanks.
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Distribution Locality : Kadapa district, Vijayanagaram district, Visakhapatnam district, East Godavari district (Andhra Pradesh State); Cuttack district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Nymphaea rubra. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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