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Nymphaea elegans

Nymphaea elegans Hook.  
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Tropical Royal-Blue Water-Lily, more...water lily (es: capomo, flor de capomo, cabeza de negro)
[Castalia elegans (Hook.) Greene]
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John H. Wiersema in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Rhizomes unbranched, erect, ovoid; stolons absent. Leaves: petiole glabrous. Leaf blade abaxially purple, adaxially green, ovate to nearly orbiculate, 8-20(-30) × 7-16(-25) cm, margins entire to sinuate; venation radiate and prominent centrally, without weblike pattern, compressed upon drying, principal veins 9-17; surfaces glabrous. Flowers emersed, 6-13 cm diam., opening and closing diurnally, only sepals and outermost petals in distinct whorls of 4; sepals green, abaxially flecked with short dark lines, faintly to obscurely veined, lines of insertion on receptacle not prominent; petals 8-27, pale violet to nearly white; stamens 55-145, yellow, connective appendage projecting to 1 mm, rarely more, beyond anther; filaments mostly widest above middle, shorter than anthers; pistil 12-20(-25)-locular, appendages at margin of stigmatic disk triangular, 1 mm or less. Seeds nearly globose, ca. 1.1-1.6 × 0.9-1.3 mm, 1.1-1.3 times as long as broad, with short appressed papillae absent or to 30 µm.

Flowering spring-fall. Freshwater ponds, lakes, sloughs, pools in swamps and marshes, ditches, and canals; 0-150 m; Fla., La., Tex.; ne, w Mexico; West Indies (Bahamas).
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