Romulea columnaeSebast. & Mauri

WFO wfo-0000785999 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 columnae, photographed by Billy Fullwood
fig. a Billy Fullwood, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-08 / obs. 186937435
Romulea columnae, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. b Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14813827
Romulea columnae, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. c Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82691781
Romulea columnae, photographed by Billy Fullwood
fig. d Billy Fullwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186937367
Romulea columnae, photographed by Billy Fullwood
fig. e Billy Fullwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186937392
Romulea columnae, photographed by Billy Fullwood
fig. f Billy Fullwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186937418
Romulea columnae, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. g Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114069294

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Romulea columnae is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Corse, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresCanary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Romulea columnae, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 60 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 columnae (Sebast. & Mauri) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium flaveolum (Jord. & Fourr.) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium grandiscapum (Webb) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium neglectum (Jord. & Fourr.) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium rollii (Parl.) Kuntze
  • Ixia columnae (Sebast. & Mauri) Schult.
  • Ixia minima Ten.
  • Ixia parviflora Salisb.
  • Romulea affinis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Romulea armoricana Jord.
  • Romulea assumptionis Font Quer
  • Romulea basileleonis Sennen
  • Romulea battandieri Bég.
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. columnae (Sebast. & Mauri) Bonnier & Layens
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. flaveola (Jord. & Fourr.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. flaveola (Jord. & Fourr.) Baker
  • Romulea columnae subsp. coronata (Merino) Merino
  • Romulea columnae subsp. hartungii (Parl. ex G.Hartung) G.Kunkel
  • Romulea columnae subsp. modesta (Jord.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea columnae subsp. occidentalis (Bég.) Moret
  • Romulea columnae subsp. subalbida (Jord. & Fourr.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea columnae var. immaculata Maire
  • Romulea columnae var. modesta (Jord.) Nyman
  • Romulea columnae var. nivea (Merino) Merino

and 36 more.

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.

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