Romulea papyracea Wolley-Dod (1900:170)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
May be invalid. Regarded as a synonym of R. schlechteri by (Manning & Goldblatt, 2001).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Hall & Veldhuis, 1985 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; WCMC, 1992:224) or Invalid (synonym of R. schlechteri) (Manning & Goldblatt, 2001) or Invalid (synonym of R. obscura) (POWO, 2025)
Last (and only) record: 1897 (JSTOR Global Plants)
Distribution & Habitat
lower plateau of Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2020). Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Hall, A. V. and Veldhuis, H.A. (1985). South African red data book: 1-160. CSIR, Pretoria.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Manning, John C. and Goldblatt, Peter. (2001). A synoptic review of Romulea (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) in sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra including new species, biological notes, and a new infrageneric classification. Adansonia sér. (3) 23(1): 59-108.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 28 July 2025]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.