the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra including new species, biological notes, and a new infrageneric classification Author Manning, John C. Author Goldblatt, Peter text Adansonia 2001 3 23 1 59 108 journal article http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5180119 1639-4798 5180119 59. Romulea cedarbergensis M.P. de Vos J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 9: 245 (1972) ; Fl. S. Africa 7(2), fasc. 2: 62 (1983). — Type : Uys sub de Vos 2030, South Africa , Western Cape , Cedarberg Mts. , Wolfsberg (holo-, NBG !) . Plants 3-15 cm high, stem subterranean; corm rounded at base with curved acuminate teeth. Leaves (1)2 or 3, basal, filiform, narrowly 4- grooved, 0.5-1 mm diam.; outer bracts submembranous, often purplish with narrow colorless membranous margins, inner bracts submembranous with wide brown-speckled membranous margins. Flowers 1(-2), white to pale pink with a yellow cup, tepals elliptic, 7-16 mm long; filaments 4-6 mm long, anthers 2-3.5 mm long. Fruiting peduncles suberect. Flowering: July-Sep. A slender, delicate species, Romulea cedarbergensis favours shallow, wet sandy soil on sandstone pavement, and is restricted to the Cedarberg of Western Cape Province . It has only two or three filiform leaves and small flowers with tepals 7-16 mm long. The leaves are the most reduced in the series in their anatomy, lacking secondary veins in the ribs and with only vestigial sclerenchyma strands along the rib margins.