Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part N) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 690 695 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Nymphaea lotus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 511. 1753 . "Habitat in calidis Indiae, Africae, Americae." RCN: 3857. Lectotype (Verdcourt in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Nymphaeaceae : 3. 1989): [icon] "Lotus Aegyptia" in Alpino, Pl. Exot.: 214, 213. 1627. Current name: Nymphaea lotus L. ( Nymphaeaceae ). Note: Verdcourt (in Kew Bull. 44: 179. 20 Mar 1989) gave a detailed account but the typification dates from his slightly earlier (15 Feb 1989) Flora account.