Romulea

Accepted species 121 Documented here 54 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 121 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Romulea rosea (L.) Eckl. 527 documented
Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P.de Vos 299 documented
Romulea minutiflora Klatt 135 documented
Romulea hirsuta (Steud. ex Klatt) Eckl. ex Baker 95 documented
Romulea bulbocodium (L.) Sebast. & Mauri 93 documented
Romulea monadelpha (Sweet ex Steud.) Baker 76 documented
Romulea tortuosa (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Baker 68 documented
Romulea tabularis Eckl. ex Bég. 67 documented
Romulea sabulosa Schltr. ex Bég. 60 documented
Romulea cruciata (Jacq.) Bég. 39 documented
Romulea dichotoma (Thunb.) Baker 38 documented
Romulea atrandra G.J.Lewis 36 documented
Romulea citrina Baker 36 documented
Romulea austinii E.Phillips 31 documented
Romulea macowanii Baker 30 documented
Romulea toximontana M.P.de Vos 27 documented
Romulea fibrosa M.P.de Vos 26 documented
Romulea ligustica Parl. 25 documented
Romulea obscura Klatt 25 documented
Romulea saldanhensis M.P.de Vos 25 documented
Romulea setifolia N.E.Br. 25 documented
Romulea tempskyana Freyn 24 documented
Romulea syringodeoflora M.P.de Vos 23 documented
Romulea hirta Schltr. 22 documented
Romulea kamisensis M.P.de Vos 22 documented
Romulea montana Schltr. ex Bég. 19 documented
Romulea camerooniana Baker 17 documented
Romulea pudica (Sol. ex Ker Gawl.) Baker 17 documented
Romulea pilosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 16 documented
Romulea eximia M.P.de Vos 12 documented
Romulea jugicola M.P.de Vos 11 documented
Romulea clusiana (Lange) Nyman 10 documented
Romulea ramiflora Ten. 8 documented
Romulea requienii Parl. 8 documented
Romulea biflora (Bég.) M.P.de Vos 7 documented
Romulea columnae Sebast. & Mauri 7 documented
Romulea leipoldtii Marais 7 documented
Romulea schlechteri Bég. 7 documented
Romulea linaresii Parl. 6 documented
Romulea rupestris J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 6 documented
Romulea stellata M.P.de Vos 6 documented
Romulea barkerae M.P.de Vos 5 documented
Romulea flexuosa Klatt 5 documented
Romulea vlokii M.P.de Vos 5 documented
Romulea luteiflora (M.P.de Vos) M.P.de Vos 4 documented
Romulea triflora (Burm.f.) N.E.Br. 4 documented
Romulea aquatica G.J.Lewis 3 documented
Romulea diversiformis M.P.de Vos 3 documented
Romulea hantamensis (Diels) Goldblatt 3 documented
Romulea longipes Schltr. 3 documented
Romulea monticola M.P.de Vos 3 documented
Romulea namaquensis M.P.de Vos 3 documented
Romulea speciosa (Ker Gawl.) Baker 3 documented
Romulea vinacea M.P.de Vos 3 documented
Romulea multisulcata M.P.de Vos 2 below the evidence gate
Romulea pratensis M.P.de Vos 2 below the evidence gate
Romulea revelierei Jord. & Fourr. 2 below the evidence gate
Romulea subfistulosa M.P.de Vos 2 below the evidence gate
Romulea tetragona M.P.de Vos 2 below the evidence gate
Romulea autumnalis L.Bolus 1 below the evidence gate
Romulea komsbergensis M.P.de Vos 1 below the evidence gate
Romulea sphaerocarpa M.P.de Vos 1 below the evidence gate
Romulea × viridis Pau ex Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea albiflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea albomarginata M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea alticola J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea anceps (Merino) Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea antiatlantica Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea arnaudii Moret 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea bocchierii Frignani & Iiriti 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea cedarbergensis M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea collina J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea congoensis Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea corsica Jord. & Fourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea cyrenaica Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea discifera J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea eburnea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea elliptica M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea engleri Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea fischeri Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea florentii Moret 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea fuscomontana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea gigantea Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea gracillima Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea hallii M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea insularis Sommier 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea jezzinis Addam & Bou-Hamdan 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea jordanii Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea libanotica Addam & Bou-Hamdan 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea lilacina J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea limbarae Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea lutea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea maculata J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea malaniae M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea maroccana Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea melitensis Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea membranacea M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea merinoi Pau ex Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea monophylla J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea multifida M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea nivalis (Boiss. & Kotschy) Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea numidica Jord. & Fourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea pearsonii M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea penzigii Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea petraea Al-Eisawi 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea phoenicia Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea quartzicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea sanguinalis M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea sanisensis (M.P.de Vos) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea saxatilis M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea singularis J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea sinispinosensis M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea sladenii M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea sulphurea Bég. 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea tubulosa J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea unifolia M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea vaillantii Quézel 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea variegata Merino 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea variicolor Mifsud 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea villaretii Dobignard 0 below the evidence gate
Romulea viridibracteata M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.