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Nymphaeaceae
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In botany, Nymphaeaceae is the name of a family of plants which grow in water. The family is also called water-lily family.
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Family: | Nymphaeaceae Salisb. (1805) |
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Their flowers suggest they are one of the earliest groups of angiosperms.[1] Modern genetic analyses by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group researchers has confirmed its basal position among flowering plants.[2][3][4]
Also, the Nymphaeaceae are more diverse and wdespread than other basal angiosperms.[5][6] Nymphaeaceae is in the order Nymphaeales. According to the most widely accepted flowering plant classification system, this is the second diverging group of angiosperms after Amborella.[2][3][4]