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Romulea tortuosa

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Name

Identification
Romulea tortuosa (Licht. ex Roem.&Schult.) Baker [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M. De Vos,
Related name
  • Romulea tortuosa
  • Romulea tridentifera

Flora

Entry for ROMULEA tortuosa Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
ROMULEA tortuosa Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 88;—Baker, Handb. Irid. 100.
Ixia tortuosa Licht. [family IRIDACEAE], in Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. i. 375.
Trichonema tortuosum Ker [family IRIDACEAE], Gen. Irid. 83; Klatt in Linnæa, xxxiv. 666.
Information
corm ovoid, with brown, rigid tunics; basal leaves 3–4, setaceous, tortuose, spreading, 1 1/2–2 in. long, firm in texture, 3-nerved, 1/2 lin. diam.; flowers 2–3, subsessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves; spathe of two green lanceolate valves 1/2 in. long; perianth bright yellow, with a short tube, and a limb 1/2 in. long, with oblong, lanceolate segments 1/6 in. broad; stamens reaching more than halfway up the limb, the filaments as long as the lanceolate-sagittate anthers. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Fraserburg Div., Middle Roggeveld, between Jakhals Fontein and Kuilenberg, near Sutherland, Burchell, 1343! Lichtenstein.

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