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 70. Romulea viridibracteata M.P. de Vos J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 9: 247 (1972) ; Fl. S. Africa 7(2), 2: 68 (1983). — Type : Salter 3652, South Africa , Western Cape , Pakhuis Pass (holo-, BOL !; iso-, BM , K !) . Plants 10-30 cm high, stem subterranean; corm rounded at base with curved acuminate teeth. Leaves 3-5, basal, filiform, narrowly 4- grooved, 1-2 mm diam.; outer bracts usually keeled above, with narrow, often brown-dotted membranous margins, inner bracts 2-keeled with colorless or brown-dotted membranous margins. Flowers yellow with dark brown markings at the edge of the cup, tepals obovate, 20-35 mm long; filaments 4-5 mm long, anthers 6-9 mm long. Fruiting peduncles at first spreading, later suberect. Flowering: Aug.- Sep. Romulea viridibracteata occurs on sandstone slopes in the mountains of Western Cape Province , South Africa . Although there is a single early record from Nieuwoudtville all subsequent collections have been made on the Pakhuis Pass above Clanwilliam. The only yellow-flowered species of series Spatalanthus , R. viridibracteata appears to be most closely allied to the red-flowered R . sabulosa , with which it shares fairly narrow leaves.