Romulea toximontanaM.P.de Vos [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M.P. de Vos,
Related name
Romulea toximontana
Flora
Entry for Romulea toximontana [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 toximontana [family JUNCACEAE]
Information
Closely related to R. montana (no. 11) from which it differs as follows: Stem up to 100 mm long. Basal leaves sometimes minutely and sparsely ciliate on the rib margins. Flowers 18—30 mm long, cream with an orange cup, the outer segments on the backs green or purple or irregularly blotched. Perianth segments 13—22 mm long. Filaments 3—5 mm, orange-yellow; anthers pale yellow. Style 7—10 mm. Capsules ellipsoid, on widely patent straight peduncles.
Habitat
The shape of the corm is similar to that of R. montana (no. 11) but R. toximontana differs in its cream-coloured flowers with shorter style, in its chromosome number (2n=c. 28, compared with 24 in R. montana) and in peduncles diverging at an angle of about 90° in the fruiting stage. From the sympatric R. sladenii (no. 24) it differs in corm shape, chromosome number and in the smaller divergence of the fruiting peduncles.
Use
12. Romulea toximontana De Vos in Jl S. Afr. Bot. Suppl. 9: 89, fig. 22 (1972). Type: Cape, plateau on Gifberg, Vanrhynsdorp, De Vos 2020 (STE, holo.!; PRE).
Range
Found on the plateau of the Gifberg near Vanrhynsdorp and on the escarpment above Van-rhyn's Pass, on sandy soil at c. 500—750 m aLtitude (3118-DC; 3119-AC).
