Victoria amazonica

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Victoria amazonica']

• English: Amazon water-lily
• العربية: فكتورية أمازونية
• مصرى: فيكتوريا امازونيكا
• български: амазонска виктория
• čeština: Viktorie královská
• eesti: Amasoonase viktooria
• فارسی: نیلوفر آبی بزرگ
• suomi: Amatsoninjättilumme
• français: Victoria d'Amazonie
• galego: Vitoria rexia
• עברית: ויקטוריה מלכותית
• hrvatski: Divovski amazonski lopoč
• hornjoserbsce: Wodowa krasnica
• magyar: Amazonasi óriás-tündérrózsa
• հայերեն: Ամազոնյան վիկտորիա
• interlingua: Victoria amazonic
• Bahasa Indonesia: Teratai raksasa
• 日本語: オオオニバス
• қазақша (кирил): виктория регия
• Lëtzebuergesch: Riseséirous
• lietuvių: Amazoninė viktorija, Gigantiškoji viktorija
• latviešu: Karaliskā viktorija
• മലയാളം: വിക്റ്റോറിയ ആമസോണിക്ക
• ирон: Амазонкæйаг виктори
• polski: Wiktoria królewska
• پنجابی: ایمزنی وکٹوریہ
• português: Vitória-régia
• русский: Виктория амазонская
• svenska: Jättenäckros
• தமிழ்: விக்டோரியா அமேசானிகா
• українська: Victoria regia
• Tiếng Việt: Súng nia
• 中文: 王莲, 亚马孙王莲
• 中文（中国大陆）: 王莲
• 中文（臺灣）: 亞馬遜王蓮

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: Basal angiosperms • Ordo: Nymphaeales • Familia: Nymphaeaceae • Genus: Victoria (Nymphaeaceae) • Species: Victoria amazonica (Poepp.) J.C. Sowerby (1850)

Synonyms

Victoria regalis Schomb. (1837)

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  Victoria amazonica and Victoria cruziana
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  bud
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  young leaf
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  Metopidius indicus (Bronze-winged Jacana) over its egg
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  leaf edge
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  leaf detail
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  leaf back side
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  leaf back side detail
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  1900-1930

Botanical illustrations

"Victoria Regia : or, Illustrations of the Royal water-lily, in a series of figures chiefly made from specimens flowering at Syon and at Kew by Walter Fitch; with descriptions by Sir W.J. Hooker. "

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  Title page
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  Plate 1
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  Plate 2
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  Plate 3
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  Plate 4

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 73 (1847)

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  Plate 4275
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  Plate 4276
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  Plate 4277
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  Plate 4278

other illustrations

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  Illustrated London News, 1849
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  1851 Walter Hood Fitch, from William Jackson Hooker's monograph
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  1854 United States: William Sharp did six portraits of the species.
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  ~1910

External links

Wikispecies has an entry on: Victoria amazonica.