One of the very few aquatic macrophytes older than this are the Aopnogetons it evolved from. Mind blower or what?
This is a primitive water lily and it's simple flower common to all Lotus and water lilies can be found all over the world.
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The least evolved member of the genus this waterlily is in Nymphaea, is this one. Previously it had been in a genus by itself (which we call "monophyletic") util DNA evidence made plan the fact it belongs in the water lily genus
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