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Nymphaea × daubenyana; photograph David Garza, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYDavid Garza, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Nymphaea × daubenyana O.Thomas

Nymphaeaceae · Chad

A hybrid: N. micrantha × N. nouchali var. caerulea, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Nymphaea × daubenyana, photograph David Garza, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFNymphaea × daubenyana, photograph Camilo Segura, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFNymphaea × daubenyana, photograph Camilo Segura, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFNymphaea × daubenyana, photograph Camilo Segura, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 5 photographs ›

Summary

Nymphaea × daubenyana is a species of waterlily endemic to Chad, which has also been introduced to the USA (Florida) and Sri Lanka. It is a natural hybrid of Nymphaea micrantha and Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Nymphaea × daubenyana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Nymphaea

Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Nymphaea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeChad · introduced: Sri Lanka, Society Is., Florida · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Range sourceKew's entry Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny · the range is that of Kew's entry of these words by another author than the one this page cites
Kew's description“tuberous hydrogeophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 20 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 2882438 (Nymphaea ×daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny): Kew's file holds it as Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny (accepted); 12 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: David Garza, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Camilo Segura, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Other Nymphaea 20 in the reference

Nymphaea alba Nymphaea alba European white water-lily Photo: CC BY, Nick ButcherNymphaea ampla Nymphaea ampla Dotleaf waterlily Photo: CC0, author not statedNymphaea candida Nymphaea candida White water lily Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевNymphaea elegans Nymphaea elegans Blue water-lily Photo: CC BY, Mike DuranNymphaea gigantea Nymphaea gigantea Giant water-lily Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyNymphaea gracilis Nymphaea gracilis Nymphaeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Oscar Alejandro Morales JuárezNymphaea jamesoniana Nymphaea jamesoniana James' waterlily Photo: CC BY, Claudio Cantú MuñizNymphaea lotus Nymphaea lotus White Egyptian lotus Photo: CC BY, Lucy Keith-DiagneNymphaea mexicana Nymphaea mexicana Banana water-lily Photo: CC BY, mfeaverNymphaea micrantha Nymphaea micrantha Blue Egyptian Lotus Photo: CC BY, Lucy Keith-DiagneNymphaea nouchali Nymphaea nouchali Blue lotus Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloNymphaea odorata Nymphaea odorata Fragrant water-lily Photo: CC BY, Bonnie Semmling all 21 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWikipedia POWO and IPNI by the numbers of Kew's entry for this hybrid

The record

Family
Nymphaeaceae
Described by
O.Thomas
Native to
Chad
Wild records
none in range · 20 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04the range is Kew's entry Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny; the name is cited O.Thomas
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 12 records of GBIF's key 2882438, Nymphaea ×daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny (Kew's file holds it as Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22not taken: the item labelled Nymphaea daubenyana, Q11702833, carries GBIF key 2882438, GBIF's record of Nymphaea ×daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny, another author's name
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Nymphaea daubenyana to Nymphaea × daubenyana, this species' name
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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