| Author | Title | Journal/publisher | Literature ref. no. | 
| Mendonça, F.A. (1960) | Nymphaeaceae | Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) | 74 | 
Note that the process of capturing references from species to the literature and the reverse may be incomplete.
| Species found: 4 | 
| Nymphaea heudelotii | 
| Nymphaea lotus | 
| Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea | 
| Nymphaea sulphurea |