Romulea sulphurea Bég. (1907:331)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1897 (Manning & Goldblatt, 2001:84)
Rediscovered in: 1999 (Manning & Goldblatt, 2001:84)
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution & Habitat
South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2020). Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, Craig (ed.). (1996). Red data list of Southern African plants: 1-117. National Botanical Institute, 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.
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Vos de, M. P. (1983). Flora of Southern Africa 7(2; 2): i-ix, 1-76. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture.
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.