The leaf blades with toothed margins of 2mm long, regularly spaced teeth may reach 40 cm in width.

[3] Over time, the colour of Nymphaea atrans flowers shifts from blue and white to a deep pink.

The anthers, typically featuring a small hooked apical appendage, can reach up to 10 mm in length.

[8] Apart from the reduced fertility, the hybrids can be identified through the lighter pink colouration of older flowers, as they do not darken to the darker shades found in Nymphaea atrans.

[2] The type specimen was collected by Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs and J. Clarkson along the Bathurst Bay road north of Wakooka in Queensland, Australia on the 31st of July 1987.