Romulea macowanii Baker

Manning, John C. & Goldblatt, Peter, 2001, the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra including new species, biological notes, and a new infrageneric classification, Adansonia (3) 23 (1), pp. 59-108 : 87

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5180119

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190378

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scientific name

Romulea macowanii Baker
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34. Romulea macowanii Baker View in CoL

J. Bot. 5: 236 (1876) ; M. P. de Vos , J. S. African Bot. , Suppl. 9: 165 (1972); Fl . S. Africa 7(2), fasc. 2: 48 (1983). — Type: MacOwan 1547, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Somerset East , Boschberg (lecto-, K!, designated by M. P. DE VOS, 1972; isolecto-, BM, BOL!, G, GRA, P, PRE!) .

Plants 20-40 cm, stem subterranean; corm with a crescent-shaped basal ridge. Leaves 3-6, basal, filiform, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.6-1 mm diam.; outer bracts submembranous below, inner bracts submembranous with greenish apices. Flowers tubular below, golden-yellow with the cup and often the lower half of the tepals orange, perianth tube 14-65 mm long, tepals elliptic, (10-) 15-45 mm; filaments 5-10 mm, anthers 5-12 mm. Fruiting peduncles recurved. Flowering: mainly Jan.-May.

A species of montane grassland and stony plateaus, Romulea macowanii extends from Somerset East in the west to the high Drakensberg in eastern Lesotho. It is one of only three yellow-flowered species of Romulea that occur in the southern African summer-rainfall zone and is distinguished among all yellow-flowered species in the genus by its long, funnelshaped perianth tube, 14-65 mm long.

J

University of the Witwatersrand

M

Botanische Staatssammlung München

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

S

Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

BM

Bristol Museum

BOL

University of Cape Town

G

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

GRA

Albany Museum

PRE

South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Iridaceae

Genus

Romulea

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