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 40. Romulea tortilis Baker Bull. Herb. Boissier , sér. 2, 4: 1003 (1904); M . P . de Vos , J . S . African Bot. , Suppl. 9: 132 (1972); Fl. S . Africa 7(2), fasc. 2: 33 (1983). — Type : Schlechter 4890 , South Africa , Western Cape , near Porterville (holo-, Z ; iso-, B , G , GRA , K !, PRE !, SAM !) . Plants 6-12 cm , stem subterranean or reaching 3 cm above ground; corm symmetrical, bellshaped with a circular rim of fibrils. Leaves 2-5, basal and usually cauline, tightly sinuous, narrowly 4-grooved, sometimes minutely ciliate, 0.5- 1 mm diam.; outer bracts without visible membranous margins, inner bracts with wider brown or brown-edged membranous margins. Flowers old-rose with dark red blotches around the yellow cup, tepals elliptic, 15-25 mm long; filaments 5-6 mm long, anthers 3.5-5 mm long; style sometimes multifid with more than 6 branches. Flowering: July-Sep. Romulea tortilis is poorly known and is distinguished from R. hirsuta by its sinuous or twisted leaves. Restricted to Western Cape Province , South Africa , it has been recorded on sandstone slopes from Clanwilliam in the north to Piketberg in the south.