Nymphaea vaporalis is a species of waterlily endemic to Queensland, Australia.

[2] Nymphaea vaporalis is an annual or perennial species with globose rhizomes.

[3] The fragrant, day-flowering, flowers can rise up to 30 cm above the water surface.

[3] It was first described by Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs and Carl Barre Hellquist in 2011.

[2] The type specimen of Nymphaea vaporalis was collected at an elevation of 287 meters above sea level by Jacobs and Hellquist in North Kennedy, Queensland on th 10th of June 2007.