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Romulea Maratti

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Romulea Maratti, Pl. Romul. Saturn. 13 (1772)
Romulea Maratti

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Wild
New Zealand
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Maratti
Maratti
1772
13
ICN
Romulea Maratti
genus
Romulea

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Romulea

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Romulea Maratti

Summer-green perennial. Corm small; tunic hard, woody, brown, usually smooth. Stem often not protruding above ground or else hidden by sheathing leaf-bases, occasionally elongate. Leaves few, much > stems, channelled, filiform, terete or compressed-cylindrical. Scape 1-several, emerging successively. Flower solitary, terminal, actinomorphic, often brightly coloured, usually funnel-shaped, within 2 spathe-valves; tube usually very short; lobes usually equal, ± spreading. Stamens symmetrical. Style-branches 3, usually deeply bifid. Capsule shortly cylindrical or ellipsoid, coriaceous. Seeds numerous, globose or angled. Spp. c. 90 mainly of S. Africa but also from Europe and tropical Africa. Adventive sp. 1.

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Romulea Maratti
Romulea Maratti
Romulea Maratti
Romulea
Romulea Maratti

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Romulea Maratti
New Zealand
Romulea Maratti
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Romulea Maratti
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Romulea Maratti
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
15 September 2008
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