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 61. Romulea monticola M.P. de Vos J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 9: 241 (1972) ; Fl. S. Africa 7(2), fasc. 2: 60 (1983). — Type : de Vos 1924, South Africa , Western Cape , top of Vanrhyn’s Pass (holo-, NBG !) . Plants 10-25 cm high, stem subterranean; corm rounded at base with curved acuminate teeth. Leaves 3-6, basal, narrowly 4-grooved, c. 1 mm diam.; outer bracts submembranous, often purplish with narrow brownish membranous margins, inner bracts with wide brown membranous margins. Flowers yellow with darker veins in the throat, unscented, tepals elliptic, 18-27 mm long; filaments 4-5 mm long, anthers 3-5 mm long. Fruiting peduncles suberect or curved. Flowering: June-Sep. Romulea monticola grows in sandy loam in fynbos on the Bokkeveld Mts. and Gifberg. It resembles yellow-flowered forms of R . obscura but is distinguished by the fruiting pedicels which remain erect or are only slightly curved. In addition the stamens in R . monticola are relatively shorter than in R . obscura and are included in the floral cup. It is also somewhat similar to narrowleaved forms of R. luteoflora , but in this species the green central portion of the bracts is much more distinct and the fruiting peduncles coil characteristically.