Yellow waterlily (nymphaea mexicana) in lake ohakuri, north island, New Zealand

Abstract

The yellow waterlily, Nymphaea mexicana Zuccarini, is reported for New Zealand for the first time. This species, previously identified in the New Zealand literature as Nymphaea alba L., is well established in Lake Ohakuri, a large hydroelectric lake on the Waikato River. © 1982 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.