| Romulea columnae Sebast. & Mauri / Infraspecifics: Romulea columnae ssp. columnae, it is a herbs, with small ovoid corm producing offsets, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Stem (scape) leafy, c. 6-10 cm (at flowering), up to 30 cm (at fruiting), cylindrical. Leaves longer than the scape linear, 100-150 x 1.5-2 mm. smooth, recurved, acute at tips. Flowers regular, 1-3 per plant. Perianth segments 8-10 mm long, oblong-lanceolatc, with clear yellowish-green or purplish striations, pale-lilac to white inside, throat glabrous. Stamens half to as long as the perianth, filaments glabrous and hairy at base, anthers basifixed. Style shorter than stamens, 3-lobed, each lobe 2-fid. Capsule ovoid-oblong, hexagonal, obtuse. Seeds subglobose to ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm in diam, finely ± tubercled, brown orange. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Jan-Feb, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, W. Europe to Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:440703-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/440703-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000785999, https://www.gbif.org/species/2743594, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/160702/romulea-columnae-sebast-mauri, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3396.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_romuleacolumnae.php, https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Iridaceae/Romulea_columnae.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulea_columnae |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Labrag 1968 Gebel Akhder 1973 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Iridaceae Vol. (81) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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