Romulea macowaniiBaker

WFO wfo-0000785907 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-08 / obs. 179601450
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179603510
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179598774
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179598204
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179602765
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179419628
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. g Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180103577
Romulea macowanii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179401044

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Romulea macowanii is native: Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho Cape ProvincesFree StateKwaZulu-NatalLesotho
Native distribution of Romulea macowanii, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES

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 macowanii (Baker) Kuntze
  • Romulea longituba G.J.Lewis
  • Romulea longituba L.Bolus
  • Romulea longituba var. alticola B.L.Burtt
  • Romulea macowanii var. alticola (B.L.Burtt) M.P.de Vos
  • Romulea macowanii var. oreophila M.P.de Vos
  • Syringodea luteonigra 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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