Nuphar japonica

Nuphar japonica, known as East Asian yellow water-lily,[2] is an aquatic plant species in the genus Nuphar found in Japan and the Korean Peninsula. It is endangered in Russia. The species was not accepted by The Plant List as of November 2013, which regarded it as an "unresolved name".[3]

Nuphar japonica
Nuphar japonica
Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nuphar
Section: Nuphar sect. Nuphar
Species:
N. japonica
Binomial name
Nuphar japonica
DC., 1821
Synonyms[1]
  • Nymphaea japonica (DC.) G.Lawson
  • Nymphozanthus japonicus (DC.) Fernald
  • Nuphar japonica var. crenata Casp.
  • Nuphar japonica subvar. lutea Casp.
  • Nuphar japonica f. rubrotincta (Casp.) Kitam.
  • Nuphar japonica var. rubrotincta (Casp.) Ohwi
  • Nuphar japonica subvar. rubrotincta Casp.
  • Nuphar japonica var. stenophylla Miki
  • Nuphar subintegerrima f. rubrotincta (Casp.) Makino

Natural hybrids

Nuphar × saijoensis (Shimoda) Padgett is a hybrid between N. japonica and N. pumila.

Phytochemistry

N. japonica contains the alkaloids nupharidin, 1-desoxynupharidin, nupharamine, methyl and ethyl esters of nupharamine. The fruits also contains the alkaloids (0.06%) nupharine, beta-nupharidin, desoxynupharidin. In the rhizomes are found the steroid sitosterol, alkaloids acids, higher fatty acids (palmitic, oleic acid) and the ellagitanins nupharin A, B,[4] C, D, E and F.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Nuphar japonica DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 549. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via Korea Forest Service.
  3. "Nuphar japonica", The Plant List, retrieved 2013-11-14
  4. Tannins and Related Compounds. LXXV. : Isolation and Characterization of Novel Diastereoisomeric Ellagitannins, Nupharins A and B, and Their Homologues from Nuphar japonicum DC. Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 25 January 1989, volume 37, issue 1, pages 129-134 (abstract)
  5. Tannins and Related Compounds. LXXIX. Isolation and Characterization of Novel Dimeric and Trimeric Hydrolyzable Tannins, Nuphrins C, D, E and F, from Nuphar japonicum DC. Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 25 June 1989, volume 37, issue 7, pages 1735-1743 (abstract)
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