Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm.
(Yellow Water-lily)

Interactions where Nuphar lutea is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is foodplant of larva			Donacia crassipes	Water-lily Reed Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia crassipes/	Donacia crassipes	water-lily reed beetle				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily	?							larva feeds on
flower		flower may have adult			Plateumaris sericea	a reed beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Plateumaris sericea/	Plateumaris sericea	a reed beetle				adult	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily			flower				(1-)6(-12)	adult may be found on flower
leaf (upper surface)		leaf (upper surface) is grazed by adult			Donacia crassipes	Water-lily Reed Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia crassipes/	Donacia crassipes	water-lily reed beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily			leaf (upper surface)				(end 5-7(-8)	adult grazes on leaf (upper surface)
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by larva			Galerucella nymphaeae	Water-lily Leaf Beetle, Water-lily Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Galerucella nymphaeae/	Galerucella nymphaeae	water-lily leaf beetle, water-lily beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily		live	leaf					larva grazes on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by adult			Galerucella nymphaeae	Water-lily Leaf Beetle, Water-lily Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Galerucella nymphaeae/	Galerucella nymphaeae	water-lily leaf beetle, water-lily beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily		live	leaf					adult grazes on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is mined by often gregarious larva			Hydromyza livens	a dung fly	Diptera: Scathophagidae	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Scathophagidae/Hydromyza livens/	Hydromyza livens	a dung fly		often gregarious		larva	Foodplant / miner		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily		live	leaf		Major		(summer)	often gregarious larva mines live leaf
pollen?		pollen? is foodplant of adult			Donacia dentata	a reed beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia dentata/	Donacia dentata	a reed beetle				adult	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily	?		pollen?				(3-)5-8)	adult feeds on pollen?
pollen		pollen is foodplant of adult			Donacia sparganii	a reed beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia sparganii/	Donacia sparganii	a reed beetle				adult	Foodplant / feeds on	Relationship uncertain		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae/Nuphar lutea/	Nuphar lutea	yellow water-lily			pollen					adult feeds on pollen

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications
Robbins, R., 1990	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands	Benchmark Atlas Series, 1991? edition, 181pp, Warwickshire Museum Service

Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Nuphar
(lesser water lilies)

NYMPHAEACEAE
(water lilies)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

aquatic plants
(aquatic plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily)
Genus	Nuphar (lesser water lilies)
Family	NYMPHAEACEAE (water lilies)
Order	NYMPHAEALES (water lilies and water shields)
Subclass	PRE-DICOTS (primitive angiosperms)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Nuphar lutea is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Nymphaeaceae)
aquatic plants - aquatic plants (via Nymphaeaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J.		Field Guide to the Identification of Difficult Aquatic Plants of the New Forest

Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Nuphar
(lesser water lilies)

NYMPHAEACEAE
(water lilies)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

aquatic plants
(aquatic plants)

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Valentine, D.H.		Geographical distribution and isolation in some British ecospecies	Dandy, J.E. The Watsonian vice-county system, 9pp, The Study of the Distribution of British Plants

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily):

Nuphar
(lesser water lilies)

NYMPHAEACEAE
(water lilies)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

aquatic plants
(aquatic plants)

BioImages

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