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Nymphaea thermarum : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nymphaea thermarum
''Nymphaea thermarum'' is the world's smallest water lily. The pads (leaves) of ''N. thermarum'' can measure only across, less than 10% the width of the next smallest species in the genus ''Nymphaea'' (though they are more usually about or ). By comparison, the largest water lily has pads that can reach . All wild plants were lost due to destruction of its native habitat, but it was saved from extinction when it was grown from seed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2009. In January 2014, a surviving water lily was stolen from the Royal Botanic Gardens. ==Taxonomy== ''N. thermarum'' was discovered in 1987 by German botanist Eberhard Fischer. The specific epithet, ''thermarum'', refers to the hot spring and temperature that provided its native habitat. There are no common names for the plant, though Kew Gardens is informally calling it "pygmy Rwandan water lily".〔
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