Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Plantae (kingdom)
7. Angiospermae (division)
8. Magnoliopsida (class)
9. Nymphaeales (order)

Narrower term/s

• Nelumbo (genus)[+]
  • Nelumbo nucifera (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of aquatic plants containing two species. Some authorities consider the two species to constitute a separate order (Nelumbonales) because of important botanical characteristics that suggest a different evolutionary origin from the other water lilies.