Romulea, Maratti, 1772

Manning, John C. & Goldblatt, Peter, 2001, the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra including new species, biological notes, and a new infrageneric classification, Adansonia (3) 23 (1), pp. 59-108 : 73

ROMULEA subg. ROMULEA

Corm with an oblique, crescent-shaped or circular basal ridge; ridge edges finely toothed or fringed, consisting of coarse or fine fibrils, sometimes in clusters. Leaves with or without secondary bundles, occasionally with vascular girders, usually without marginal strands and lacking rib marginal bundles. Flowering stem frequently produced some distance above the ground at anthesis.

ROMULEA subg. ROMULEA sect. 1. ROMULEA

Corms with a small, oblique, crescent-shaped basal ridge usually less than half as wide as the corm; ridge edges finely toothed. Leaves with secondary bundles, usually with vascular girders and rib marginal strands but without rib marginal bundles.

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