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Romulea speciosa, Karas region, Kamiesberg (c) Brian du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2018-09-13

Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker

Iridaceae

No habitat climate 3 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex
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About the genus · Romulea

Romulea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1772. It is found in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa.

Text from Wikipedia, “Romulea”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Iridaceae
Described by
(Ker Gawl.) Baker
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
4 in range· 3 open

Also known as Bulbocodium speciosum (Ker Gawl.) Kuntze; Ixia bulbocodium var. flore-speciosissima Andrews; Ixia bulbocodium var. speciosa Andrews; Ixia neglecta Schult.; Romulea neglecta (Schult.) M.P.de Vos and 5 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Romulea, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-30.473, 18.145 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Romulea speciosaRomulea speciosa

Photographs: (c) Brian du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Romulea speciosa, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2026)
Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2026)
Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2026)
Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2026)
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Other Romulea 109 in the reference

Romulea albiflora Iridaceae
Romulea albomarginata Iridaceae
Romulea alticola Iridaceae
Romulea antiatlantica Iridaceae Romulea aquatica Water Froetang Romulea arnaudii Iridaceae Romulea atrandra Barred Froetang Romulea austinii Silky Froetang Romulea autumnalis Iridaceae Romulea barkerae Iridaceae Romulea biflora Iridaceae
Romulea bocchierii Iridaceae all 110 ›

History & registers

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Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
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inat.photos.wild answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media did not answerapi.gbif.org not asked: offline re-derivation
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.