Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Key to the species
HESPERANTHA ROMULEA 237
1. Inner floral bracts rust-coloured and entirely membranaceous to scarious;
peduncles comparatively thick, 1–1.3 mm in diameter 3. R. congoensis
- Inner floral bracts entirely green or with narrow to broad scarious margins,
these wither transparent or streaked with brown; pedicels 0.6–1 mm in
diameter 2
2. Inner floral bracts with a broad scarious margin irregularly streaked with brown;
perianth tube 4–5 mm long 1. R. fischeri
- Inner floral bracts green, or with pale narrow membranaceous margins;
perianth tube 7–8 mm long 2. R. camerooniana
Romulea fischeri
Fig. 107.
Romulea fischeri,
from near Addis
Ababa, Shewa
floristic region.
1. Romulea fischeri Pax
The specific epithet ‘fischeri’ was given in honour of
the collector, Fischer from whose collection the type of
the species was designated. The species was described
by Pax in 1892 from a plant collected in the Aber dare
mountains, Kenya.
The species is related to the eastern and southern
African R. came rooniana, and difficult to separate from
that species, but in R. fischeri the inner bracts have a
broad scarious margin irregularly streaked with brown.
In contrast R. came roo niana has pale green inner bracts,
without brown streaks.