Romulea linaresiiParl.

WFO wfo-0000785902 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 linaresii, photographed by katunchik
fig. a katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-05 / obs. 114909661

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04737475
Filed as
Romulea linaresii Parl.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
E. Reverchon 1898-05
Origin
DZ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Romulea linaresii is native: Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe TunisiaEast Aegean Is.TürkiyeBulgariaGreeceKritiSiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Romulea linaresii, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR
Tunisia TUN AFRICA

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.

Flowering 108 in flower of 108 examined

Proportion of examined Romulea linaresii in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 47 47 100% 92% to 100%
Mar 55 55 100% 93% to 100%
Apr 6 6 100% 61% to 100%
May 0 0 too few examined
Jun 0 0 too few examined
Jul 0 0 too few examined
Aug 0 0 too few examined
Sep 0 0 too few examined
Oct 0 0 too few examined
Nov 0 0 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Romulea linaresii observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 108 of 108 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 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 linaresii (Parl.) Kuntze
  • Romulea bruni Lojac.
  • Romulea sicula Lojac.
  • Trichonema linaresii (Parl.) Gren. & Godr.
  • Trichonema maritimum Sibth. ex Baker

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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