Compilation
Romulea sabulosa

17 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Romulea sabulosa Schltr. ex Bég. [family IRIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Romulea sabulosa

Flora

Entry for Romulea sabulosa [family JUNCACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Romulea sabulosa [family JUNCACEAE]
Information
Plants 120-400 mm long. Corm with curved basal teeth. Leaves filiform, 100—400 x c. 1 mm, grooves narrow. Bracts with narrow membranous margins which are usually colourless in the lower part and brown upwards. Flowers 30—50(—65) mm long, shiny scarlet or currant-red, each segment with a brownish black blotch on a greyish green, brownish or sometimes purplish blue background and below that a yellow V-shaped blotch, outer segments with 5—7 yellow veins and fine feathered veining on the backs. Perianth tube shallow, saucer-shaped, 2—4 mm deep, with a white, 6-pointed star-shaped blotch inside; seg­ments subrhomboid-cuneate to obovate-cuneate, 25-40 (-55) x 12-20 (-25) mm. Filaments free, 3—5 mm, cream or dark; anthers 8—12 mm long, purplish or yellow. Style 7—12 mm; stigmas halfway up the anthers. Fig. 18:2.
Habitat
Known as 'satynblom' or 'syblom'; distinguished by its shiny, almost bell-shaped red flowers with characteristic markings, rigid green bracts, of which the inner are two-keeled, and its free filaments.
Use
64. Romulea sabulosa Schltr. ex Beg. in Bot. Jb. 38: 334 (1907), excl. syn.; in Malpighia 23: 84 (1909), excl syn.; De Vos in Flower. PI. Afr. 41: t. 1612 (1970); in Jl S. Afr. Bot. Suppl. 9: 279, figs 79 & 93 (1972). Syntypes: Cape, Olifants River near Clan­william, Bergius (B); Onder-Bokkeveld, Oorlogskloof, Calvinia, Schlechter 10964 (G, lecto.!; BOL!; GRA!; PRE!; B!; BM!; K!; S!; Z!).
Range
Very common in the Nieuwoudtville area in the Calvinia district, on the Bokkeveld Mountains escarp­ment (3119-AC, CA).

Related Materials