Romulea toximontana

Romulea toximontana is low a herbaceous perennial geophyte in the family Iridaceae native to South Africa.

It has a small corm in the soil, several linear leaves, white trimerous flowers, yolk-yellow near the centre and with a purple wash on the outside.

[2] Romulea toximontana is a low perennial plant of 10–25 cm (3.9–9.8 in) high, that survives the dry southern summer through storage of its resources in an oval corm.

The two lower leaves are about 1 mm (0.039 in) in diameter, have four narrow grooves along their length, and sometimes rows of very small, evenly spaced hairs (or ciliate).

The flowers do not smell and are white on the inside, yolk yellow near the centre, and have a purple wash on the outside of the six elliptic tepals of 13–22 mm (0.51–0.87 in) long.

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