Romulea cameroonianaBaker

WFO wfo-0000785453 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Romulea camerooniana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-10 / obs. 113306833
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115284321
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114898964
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. d Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 13288027
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 113306664
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by James Deacon
fig. f James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115284328
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by grabbarg
fig. g grabbarg, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178897512
Romulea camerooniana, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. h Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30916658

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Romulea camerooniana is native: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe BurundiCameroonCape ProvincesEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Romulea camerooniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Burundi BUR AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bulbocodium cameroonianum (Baker) Kuntze
  • Romulea alpina Rendle
  • Romulea campanuloides Harms
  • Romulea campanuloides var. camerooniana (Baker) Cufod.
  • Romulea campanuloides var. gigantea (M.P.de Vos) M.P.de Vos
  • Romulea thodei Schltr.
  • Romulea thodei subsp. gigantea M.P.de Vos

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.