Nymphaeaceae

family of plants
Taxon taxon Q148650
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Summary

Nymphaeaceae is a taxon[1]. Nymphaeaceae ranks in the top 0.71% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,171 views/month, #1,384 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Angiosperms[4], Polycarpicae[5], Ranales[6], Nymphaeales[7]
  • Taxon name: Nymphaeaceae[8]
  • Commons category: Nymphaeaceae[9]
  • Taxonomic type: Nymphaea[10]
  • Start time: -130000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Nymphaeaceae[12]
  • Described by source: Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 27[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], The New Student's Reference Work[16]
  • Taxon synonym: Barclayaceae[17], Euryalaceae[18], Nupharaceae[19]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=779[20]
  • Taxon common name: نيلوفرية[21], ninfeacees[22], Suzanbağı (fəsilə)[23], Водни рози[24], শাপলা[25], ཆུ་པད་མ།[26], Nimfeàcia[27], leknínovité[28], Åkande-familien[29], Seerosengewächse[30], Wutkowe rostliny[31], νυμφαιοειδή[32], Water-lily family[33], Nimfeacoj[34]

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Identifiers

Nymphaeaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4410[35]. Nymphaeaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4345[36]. Nymphaeaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2423[37]. Nymphaeaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 18368[38].

Why It Matters

Nymphaeaceae has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Nymphaeaceae is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [35] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [36] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [37] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 11735087-n
    Interlingual index id → i98900
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  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2PRn4z
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Aliases → —
    Taxonomic type → Nymphaea
    Parent taxon → Angiosperms, Polycarpicae, Ranales +1
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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