Common name: Small-flowered Onion Grass
Romulea minutiflora Klatt APNI* 
Description: Small herb; corm with obliquely flattened base, tunic split into fibres at base, extended as fibrous neck at apex; aerial stem absent.
Leaves several, basal, 6–20 cm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, almost terete.
Scapes 2–4, 2–5 cm long; outer bract ovate, 6–10 mm long, herbaceous with scarious margins, often brown-blotched; inner bract 5–9 mm long, scarious, brown-blotched. Perianth tube 2–3 mm long, dull yellow; lobes elliptic, obtuse, 5–9 mm long, pale pink to lilac; outer tepals greenish outside. Style 4–6 mm long; stigmas hardly exceeding anthers.
Capsule cylindrical to obloid, 7–15 mm long, on decurved scapes that straighten at maturity.
Flowering: August–October
Distribution and occurrence: A locally common weed of pastures, lawns and roadsides; south from Deniliquin. Native of S Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *S.A. *Vic.
Text by T. A. James & E. A. Brown
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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