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Romulea rosea

Citation: Ecklon, Top. Verz. 19 (1827) var. australis (Ewart) De Vos, Jl S. Afr. Bot. Suppl. 9:254 (1972).

Synonymy: R. cruciata (Ker Gawler)Ecklon var. australis Ewart, Proc. R. Soc. Vic. 19:43 (1907); Trichonema longifolium Salish., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1:316 (1812); R. longifolia (Salish.) Baker, J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 16:89 (1877); R. parviflora Ecklon, Top. Verz. 19 (1827), nom. nud., partly; R. bulbocodium sensu Ewart, Fl. Vici. 298 (1931), non Sebast. & Mauri.

Common name: Guildford grass, onion weed,

Description:
Corm globose, without a neck; leaves 5-10, 8-35 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, dumbbell-shaped in section, glabrous, shiny.

Scapes 2-5, 3-10 cm long; outer bract 10-14 mm long, herbaceous; inner bract slightly shorter, herbaceous with wide scarious margins, often finely brown-striate; flower 15-25 mm long, far exceeding the spathe; perianth tube 2-4 mm long, yellow; perianth lobes lanceolate-elliptic, acute, 10-15 mm long, pale- to bright-pink, rarely white, the outer 3 greenish- and purplish-striped on the reverse; stamens 7-9 mm long, bright-yellow.

Capsule cylindric, c. 1 cm long; seeds c. 1 mm diam., reddish-brown.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 193.

Distribution:  In pastures, lawns and roadsides.

  W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to South Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
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Biology: A locally abundant weed.

Author: Not yet available


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