Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P. de Vos
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Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P. de Vos |
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13. Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P. de Vos View in CoL
J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 9: 75 (1972); Fl. S. Africa 7(2), fasc. 2: 20 (1983). — Romulea ambigua var. biflora Bég., Malpighia View in CoL 23: 80 (1909). — Type: Schlechter 8694, South Africa, Western Cape, Clanwilliam, Bidouwberg (holo-, G; iso-, B, BM, K!, GRA, PRE!, S) .
Plants 10-25 cm high, stem reaching 2-15 cm above ground; corm with a crescent-shaped basal ridge. Leaves 3-6, lower 2 basal, narrowly 4- grooved, c. 1 mm diam.; outer bracts with hardly visible membranous margins, inner bracts with wide colorless or brown-streaked membranous margins. Flowers pink to rose with purple blotches around the yellow cup, unscented, tepals elliptic, 18-35 mm long; filaments 5-7 mm long, anthers 5-8 mm long. Fruiting peduncles bent or suberect. Flowering: July-Sep.
Romulea biflora is one of the few species of series Ciliatae with the tepals marked with dark blotches and has pink flowers with a yellow cup surrounded by prominent dark reddish purple blotches. Plants typically grow on stony clay on lower mountain slopes and extend from the Gifberg-Matsikamma Range in the northern Western Cape Province southwards to Biedouw valley in the northern Cedarberg.
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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève |
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Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet |
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Bristol Museum |
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Royal Botanic Gardens |
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Albany Museum |
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South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) |
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Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History |
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Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P. de Vos
Manning, John C. & Goldblatt, Peter 2001 |
Romulea ambigua var. biflora Bég., Malpighia
Beg. 1909: 80 |