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A new name to me, in flower here for the first time, however I seem to have the same plant under a number of other names.
This fits the only description of the species that I have found but I'm not entirely convinced. I bought it in 2007
from an AGS show. Plants of the World online says that this is a synonym for R.columnae ssp. columnae. The IUCN Red Data List says: "Romulea battandieri Bég. is considered a synonym of the widespread Romulea columnae Sebast. & Mauri by WCSP (2017), however participating experts at the North Africa monocotyledon assessment review workshop (Rabat, 2016) did not agree with WCSP and considered this a valid species following Maire (1959) and Dobignard and Chatelain (2010). This species is known only from the Djurdjura Mountain range in Algeria. It is listed as Data Deficient because there is no information available since the time of its discovery (1910s/1920s), which is considered not adequate to assess its conservation status at present. There is a need for additional research on the field, to clarify if it is subject to any major threats." |
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