| Name | Nymphaea elegans Hooker |
| Authorship | Hooker |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Nymphaea Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:605546-1 |
| Citation | 1851 Bot. Mag. 77: pl. 4604 |
| Holdings | 42 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Nymphaea elegans Hooker |
| Identification made in | [no date] (39), 1916 (1), 2015 (2) |