Name Romulea bulbocodium Family Iridaceae Taken in Portugal (Algarve) by me (Carsten Niehaus) in March 2004. : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:.. This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue.
The genus name "Romulea" refers to the legendary founder of Rome, Romulus.The botanist Filippo Parlatore dedicate the Romulea linaresii to his close friend Italian journalist and writer Vincenzo Linarez in 1839. The cholera epidemic 1837 in Palermo gave the Linarez' inspiration for the novel Maria and Giorgio, it was also the biographer of famous Sicilian characters including the botany Antonino Bivona Bernardi and the physics Domenico Scina died during the epidemic. This plant is a herbaceous species geophytes bulbous 5-12 cm high. In Italy, a subspecies linaresii grows only in Sicily. Vulnerable habitat in Bulgaria, it grows only in several southern regions of Bulgaria. Название рода "Ромулея" происходит от основателя Рима Ромула. Итальянский ботаник Филипп Парлаторе назвал Romulea linaresii в честь своего друга Винченцо Линареса, итальянского журналиста и писателя, в 1839 г. Эпидемия холеры 1837 года в Палермо дала Линаресу вдохновение для романа о Марии и Джорджо, он был также биографом известных сицилийских персон, включая ботаника Антонино Бивона Бернарди и физика Доменико Сцина, оба они умерли во время эпидемии. В Италии подвид linaresii растет только на Сицилии. Небольшое луковичное растение высотой 5-12 см. В Болгарии - уязвимый вид, произрастает только в нескольких южных областях.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Rosy sandcrocus Romulea rosea, photographed at Buffelspad 54 estate, between the summit of Middelberg pass and Middelberg Peak, south-east of Citrusdal Afrikaans: froetang of knikker. Date: 27 August 2017, 16:13:35. Source: Own work. Author: Dwergenpaartje. Camera location32° 38′ 06.54″ S, 19° 09′ 15.3″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-32.635151; 19.154249.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Romulea bulbocodium, Llanos Ana la Paz, near Pico de Los Nieves, Gran Canaria. Date: 15 March 2014, 11:23:06. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
Summary[edit] Description: Romulea columnae Deutsch: Kanaren-ScheinkrokusEspañol: Lila picopaloma photographed on El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands. Date: 8 March 2014, 12:56:50. Source: Own work. Author: Amada44.
Description: Introduced, cool season, perennial,small herb with a globose corm, no aerial stem and annual aerial leaves and flowers. Leaves several, basal, 8–40 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, compressed, grooved and tough. Flowers are solitary. Perianth tubes formed from 6 tepals are 2–4 mm long and yellow; lobes are 10–18 mm long and pale to bright pink, rarely white; outer tepals are dark-striped or greenish outside. Stigmas are exceeded by anthers. Capsules are cylindrical, about 1 cm long, on decurved scapes that straighten at maturity. Flowering is in late winter and spring. A native of South Africa, it is a common weed of pastures, lawns and roadsides. Date: 31 August 2014, 13:18. Source: Romulea rosea plant5. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.