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 austinii [family JUNCACEAE]
Information
Plants 60—120 mm long. Corm obliÂquely flattened in the lower half with a wide crescent-shaped basal ridge. Leaves filiÂform, suberect, bent or slightly flexuose, 40—200 x 0,5 — 1 mm, sometimes ciliolate on the rib margins, grooves narrow. Bracts green in the upper half, submembranous in the lower, inner with wide brown-edged or speckled membranous margins. Flowers 20—33 mm long, yellow, usually with a spade-shaped brownish black blotch on each perianth segment, outer segments dark-veined or greenish brown on the backs. Perianth tube 4—5 mm long; segments 14—25 x 5—9 mm. Filaments 5—7 mm, slightly widened at the bases; anthers 3—6 mm long. Style 9—14 mm; stigmas more or less at the anther tips. Capsules ellipsoidal, on curved, slightly flexuose peduncles. Chromosome no. 2n=30. Fig. 11:1.
Use
40. Romulea austinii Phill. in Flower. PL Afr. 3: t. 90 (1932); De Vos in Jl S. Afr. Bot. Suppl. 9: 153, fig. 44 (1972). Type : Cape, Laingsburg, Matjiesfontein, Austin 2572 (PRE, holo.!; BOL!; K!).
Range
Found in the western, south-western and southern parts of the Great Karoo from Calvinia to Laingsburg and to Uniondale, also near Montagu and Port Elizabeth. Map 13.
