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Nymphaea alba L. (White Water-lily)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Nymphaea alba In flower 24 August 2005 East Inverness-shire Scotland 17
Nymphaea alba Plant 30 July 1971 South Devon England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Nymphaea alba may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
NYMPHAEACEAE
(water-lilies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Nymphaea alba:

is foodplant of larva Donacia crassipes - Water-lily Reed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007
Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf (live, floating) live, floating leaf is parasitised by sorus Rhamphospora nymphaeae - a smut fungus (Doassansiales: Rhamphosporaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (upper surface) leaf (upper surface) is grazed by adult Donacia crassipes - Water-lily Reed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by larva Galerucella nymphaeae - Water-lily Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by imago Galerucella nymphaeae - Water-lily Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf may have adult Donacia versicolorea - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007

Nymphaea alba may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
NYMPHAEACEAE
(water-lilies)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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