Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Magnoliopsida Brongn. |
| order | Nymphaeales Dumortier |
| family | Nymphaeaceae Salisb. |
| subfamily | Nupharoideae Ito |
| genus | Nuphar Sm. - pond-lily |
| species | Nuphar japonica DC. |