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Nelumbo sp.

genus Nelumbo Adanson (1763)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Proteales, family Nelumbonaceae

• Distribution
• Cretaceous: Fukui
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Yamaguchi, Ehime
• Miocene: Gifu, Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Niigata, Tokyo
• Investigation in progress: Yamagata

• Subtaxa
• N. nipponica
• N. orienalis