Romulea bulbocodium, (L.) Sebastiani & Mauri

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 99

1. R. bulbocodium (L.) Sebastiani & Mauri , FZ. Rom. 17 (1818)

( Trichonema bulbocodium (L.) Ker-Gawler ).

Basal leaves 2, 5-30 cm x 0-8-2 mm, curved and procumbent or straight and ascending. Cauline leaves up to 5. Scape 1- to 6-flowered. Flowers very variable in colour; tube and throat usually yellow; segments white to lilac or violet, greenish or with 1-5 dark lines outside. Bract 1-2-1 cm, purplish or with reddish-brown dots, with a very narrow scarious margin. Bracteole equalling the bract but wider, acute, (obtuse when flattened out), scarious, or with a narrow green keel, brownish. Perianth (l-)2-3-5(-5-5) cm; tube 3-5-8 mm; segments elliptical to oblong-oblanceolate, usually acute. Filaments hairy below; top of anthers reaching to about the middle of the segments or a little higher. Stigmas usually overtopping the anthers but variable in length. In = 34, 36, 42. Mediterranean region, extending to N.W. Spain and S. Bulgaria. Al Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Sa Si. R. clusiana (Lange) Nyman , Syll., Suppl. 62 (1865) ( Trichonema clusianum Lange ) and R. uliginosa G. Kunze , Flora (Regensb.) 29: 690 (1846), both from the Iberian peninsula, cannot be regarded as more than varieties.