Yellow water lily - Nuphar lutea

Although the WIki page shows as accepted scientific name for this species Nuphar lutea, as per ITIS, Catalogue of Life: 2015 Annual Checklist the accepted name is Nuphar advena.
Maybe it should be better to change it here to Nuphar advena?
Catalogue of life: https://goo.gl/N08atC

comments (4)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

I'll check what @Wildflower thinks of the name change. Posted 8 years ago
1. WildFlower
  
  Lion
  
  Both Nuphar advena and Nuphar luteum are accepted species according to the Catalogue of Life. The one in Jivko's link is a subspecies (Nuphar lutea subsp. macrophylla) not the main species. Nuphar advena is a similar American species and we already have one of them but this is a European one.
  
  Note that the correct spelling is Nuphar luteum not lutea which is probably a mistake coming from the previous name Nymphaea lutea L. However, Nuphar lutea is the name used in Wikipedia so if we change it to luteum in the JD database there is a chance that a duplicate species entry might be generated again from Wikipedia.
  http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/1ecaa6f30c5f67842972c08b5b64caf1
  http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/a3cfec36d53152f16b853821f207cd30
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuphar_lutea
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuphar_advena Posted 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks a lot, Wildflower. I propose to leave things as is for now. Posted 8 years ago
  2. Jivko Nakev
    
    Lion
    
    Thank you! It was quite confusing for me! I shall change the name in the title and my own records. I also included a tag "Nuphar luteum". Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago