Victoria cruzianaOrbign.

Santa Cruz water-lily

WFO wfo-0001086912 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Victoria cruziana, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. a Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-28 / obs. 181360785
Victoria cruziana, photographed by Federico Muñoz
fig. b Federico Muñoz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140072796
Victoria cruziana, photographed by demianlescano
fig. c demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134314575
Victoria cruziana, photographed by demianlescano
fig. d demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134314359
Victoria cruziana, photographed by demianlescano
fig. e demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134314414
Victoria cruziana, photographed by Gustavo Masuzzo
fig. f Gustavo Masuzzo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32262802
Victoria cruziana, photographed by eamonccorbett
fig. g eamonccorbett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24392778
Victoria cruziana, photographed by demianlescano
fig. h demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134319193

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Victoria cruziana is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay Argentina NortheastBrazil West-CentralParaguay
Native distribution of Victoria cruziana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Euryale bonplandia Rojas Acosta
  • Euryale cruziana Orb. ex Walp.
  • Euryale policantha Rojas Acosta
  • Victoria argentina Burmeist.
  • Victoria cruziana f. mattogrossensis Malme
  • Victoria cruziana f. trickeri Malme
  • Victoria regia var. cruziana G.Lawson
  • Victoria trickeri hort. ex Mutzek

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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