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 hantamensis [family JUNCACEAE]
Common names
Lapeirousia hantamensis Diels in Bot. Jb. 44: 116 (1910). Type: Cape, Calvinia, westlich der Hantams-Berge, Gipfelflache, Diels 732 (B, nolo..').
Information
Plants 70—150 mm long. Corm with straight acuminate teeth converging to a pointed base. Leaves compressed cylindriÂcal, arcuate or recurved, glabrous, 7—15 x 1 — 1,5 mm, grooves rather narrow. Bracts largely green, purple towards the base, ensheathing the lower part of the perianth tube, inner with wide, colourless or brown-speckled membranous margins. Flowers 60—75 mm long, bright magenta, with a purplish black blotch above the middle of each segment, and below that a long white blotch with three dark lines, outer segments purple striped on the backs. Perianth tube 35—70 mm long, tubular, widened slightly at the top; segments elliptical, spreading horizontally, 10 — 14 x 3—5 mm. Filaments 3 mm, purple; anthers 3—5 mm, purple striped; pollen yellow. Style 60—65 mm; stigmas at or just above the anther tips. Chromosome no. 2n=30. Fig. 19:1.
Habitat
Resembles R. syringodeoflora (no. 67) somewhat but differs in its corm, its much longer perianth tube, longer style, differently marked perianth segments, and in chromosome number.
Use
68. Romulea hantamensis (Diels) Goldbl. in Flower. PI. Afr. 41 :t. 1613 (1970); De Vos in Jl S. Afr. Bot. Suppl. 9: 289, fig. 96 (1972).
Range
Found only on the Hantam Mountain range above Calvinia at c. 1 500 m altitude (3119-BC, -BD).
