Romulea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Iridaceae
Subfamilia: Crocoideae
Tribus: Ixieae
Genus: Romulea
Subgenera: (4)
R. subg. Lomurea – R. subg. Momulea – R. subg. Romulea – R. subg. Spathalanthus

Overview of species

R. albiflora – R. albomarginata – R. alticola – R. antiatlantica – R. aquatica – R. arnaudii – R. atrandra – R. austinii – R. autumnalis – R. barkerae – R. biflora – R. bocchierii – R. bulbocodium – R. camerooniana – R. cedarbergensis – R. citrina – R. clusiana – R. collina – R. columnae – R. congoensis – R. corsica – R. cruciata – R. cyrenaica – R. dichotoma – R. discifera – R. diversiformis – R. eburnea – R. elliptica – R. engleri – R. eximia – R. fibrosa – R. fischeri – R. flava – R. flexuosa – R. florentii – R. gigantea – R. gracillima – R. hallii – R. hantamensis – R. hirsuta – R. hirta – R. insularis – R. jugicola – R. kamisensis – R. komsbergensis – R. leipoldtii – R. ligustica – R. lilacina – R. linaresii – R. longipes – R. lutea – R. luteiflora – R. macowanii – R. maculata – R. malaniae – R. maroccana – R. melitensis – R. membranacea – R. minutiflora – R. monadelpha – R. monophylla – R. montana – R. monticola – R. multifida – R. multisulcata – R. namaquensis – R. nivalis – R. numidica – R. obscura – R. papyracea – R. pearsonii – R. penzigii – R. petraea – R. phoenicia – R. pilosa – R. pratensis – R. pudica – R. quartzicola – R. ramiflora – R. requienii – R. revelieri – R. rosea – R. rupestris – R. sabulosa – R. saldanhensis – R. sanguinalis – R. saxatilis – R. schlechteri – R. setifolia – R. singularis – R. sinispinosensis – R. sladenii – R. speciosa – R. sphaerocarpa – R. stellata – R. subfistulosa – R. sulphurea – R. syringodeoflora – R. tabularis – R. tempskyana – R. tetragona – R. tortilis – R. tortuosa – R. toximontana – R. triflora – R. tubulosa – R. unifolia – R. vaillantii – R. variicolor – R. villaretii – R. vinacea – R. viridibracteata – R. vlokii

Nothospecies: (6)
R. × anceps – R. × jordanii – R. × limbarae – R. × merinoi – R. × variegata – R. × viridis
Name

Romulea Maratti (1772), nom. cons.

Type species: R. bulbocodium (L.) Sebast. & Mauri

Synonymy

Heterotypic
Bulbocodium Gronovius, Fl. Orient. 20 (1755), (non L. (1753).
Ilmu Adans., Fam. 2: 497 (1763), nom. rej.
Type species: C. bulbocodium L.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
References
Primary references

Maratti, G.F. 1772. Plantarum Romuleae, et Saturniae 13.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Romulea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 December 15. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Romulea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 December 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Romulea. Published online. Accessed: 15 December 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Romulea in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 December 15.
Tropicos.org 2018. Romulea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 December 15.

Vernacular names

العربية: رومولية
Deutsch: Scheinkrokusse
русский: Ромулея
Türkçe: Bodur çiğdem

Romulea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1772. It is distributed in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa.[1][2][3]

The genus name refers to the legendary founder of Rome, Romulus, and alludes to the abundance of one of the species in the Roman countryside.[2]

Species[1]

Romulea albiflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea albomarginata M.P.de Vos - Ceres Koue Bokkeveld in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea antiatlantica Maire - Morocco
Romulea aquatica G.J.Lewis - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea arnaudii Moret - southeastern France
Romulea atranda G.J.Lewis - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea austinii E.Phillips - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea autumnalis L.Bolus - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea barkerae M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea bifrons Pau - Morocco
Romulea bocchierii Frignani & Iiriti - Sardinia
Romulea bulbocodium (L.) Sebast. & Mauri - Mediterranean region from Morocco + Portugal to Syria, Sudan
Romulea camerooniana Baker - central + southern Africa north to Cameroon + Ethiopia
Romulea cedarbergensis M.P.de Vos - Cedarberg in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea citrina Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea clusiana (Lange) Nyman - Morocco, Algeria, Spain, Portugal
Romulea collina J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Hantamsberg in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea columnae Sebast. & Mauri - Mediterranean region from Morocco + Portugal to Syria, Great Britain, Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores
Romulea congoensis Bég. - Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Romulea corsica Jord. & Fourr. - Corsica
Romulea cruciata (Jacq.) Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea cyrenaica Bég. - Libya
Romulea dichotoma (Thunb.) Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea discifera J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea diversiformis M.P.de Vos - Sutherland in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea eburea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Roggeveld Escarpment in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea eburnea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea elliptica M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea englerii Bég. - Morocco
Romulea eximia M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea fibrosa M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea fischeri Pax - Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Socotra, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa; naturalized in Australia
Romulea flexuosa Klatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea florentii Moret - southeastern France
Romulea gigantea Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea gracillima Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea hallii M.P.de Vos - Roggeveld Escarpment in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea hantamensis (Diels) Goldblatt - Hantamsberg in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea hirsuta (Steud. ex Klatt) Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea hirta'' Schltr. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea jugicola M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea kamisensis M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea komsbergensis M.P.de Vos - Roggeveld Escarpment in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea leipoldtii Marais - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea ligustica Parl. - Corsica, Sardinia, Veneto, Liguria, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Romulea lilacina J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea × limbarae Bég. - Sardinia (R. ligustica × R. requienii)
Romulea linaresii Parl. - Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia
Romulea longipes Schltr. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea lutea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea luteiflora (M.P.de Vos) M.P.de Vos - Cape Province, Lesotho
Romulea macowanii Baker - Cape Province, Free State, Lesotho
Romulea maculata J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea malaniae M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea maroccana Bég. - Morocco
Romulea melitensis Bég. - Malta, Gozo
Romulea membranacea M.P.de Vos - near Middelpos in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea minutiflora Klatt - Cape Province; naturalized in Australia
Romulea monadelpha (Sweet ex Steud.) Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea montana Schltr. ex Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea monticola M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea multifida M.P.de Vos - Roggeveld Escarpment in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea multisulcata M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea namaquensis M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea nivalis (Boiss. & Kotschy) Klatt - Mount Hermon in Syria + Lebanon
Romulea numidica Jord. & Fourr. - Morocco, Algeria
Romulea obscura Klatt - Cape Province; naturalized in Australia
†Romulea papyracea Wolley-Dod - Cape Province but extinct
Romulea pearsonii M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea penzigii Bég. - Algeria
Romulea petraea Al-Eisawi - Jordan
Romulea phoenicia Mouterde - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan
Romulea pilosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea pratensis M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea pudica (Sol. ex Ker Gawl.) Baker - Bokkeveld in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea quartzicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea ramiflora Ten. - Mediterranean from Morocco + Portugal to Turkey
Romulea requienii Parl. - Corsica, Sardinia
Romulea revelieri Jord. & Fourr. - Corsica, several small Italian islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Romulea rosea (L.) Eckl. - Cape Province; naturalized in France, Chile, Australia, California, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha
Romulea rupestris J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sabulosa Schltr. ex Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea saldanhensis M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sanguinalis M.P.de Vos - Bokkeveld in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea saxatilis M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea schlechteri Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea setifolia N.E.Br. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea singularis J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sinispinosensis M.P.de Vos - Doringbaai in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sladenii M.P.de Vos - Gifberg Plateau in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sphaerocarpa M.P.de Vos - Great Karoo in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea stellata M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea sulphurea Bég - Pakhuis Mountains, Western Cape province of South Africa
Romulea subfistulosa M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea syringodeoflora M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea tabularis Eckl. ex Bég. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea tempskyana Freyn - Cyprus, Turkey, Greek Islands, Israel, Palestine
Romulea tetragona M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea tortilis Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea tortuosa (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Baker - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea toximontana M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea triflora (Burm.f.) N.E.Br. - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea tubulosa J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea unifolia M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea vaillantii Quézel - Algeria
Romulea villaretii Dobignard - Morocco
Romulea vinacea M.P.de Vos - Pakhuis Pass in Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea viridibracteata M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa
Romulea vlokii M.P.de Vos - Cape Province of South Africa

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 91–93. ISBN 0-88192-897-6.
Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Romulea includes photos plus European distribution maps