Romulea papyracea Wolley-Dod
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
May be invalid. Regarded as a synonym of R. schlechteri by (Manning & Goldblatt, 2001).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 1897
Distribution
lower plateau of Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Hall, A.V. & 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, Ptere Goldblatt. (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.
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.