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Family
Common Names
Origin
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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

grass-like leaves and flower stems (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

immature fruit on long stalks (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

comparison of the flowers of common onion grass (Romulea rosea var. australis), on the left, and small-flowered onion grass (Romulea minutiflora), on the right (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

comparison of small-flowered onion grass (Romulea minutiflora), on the left, and thread iris (Moraea setifolia), on the right (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Romulea minutiflora

Scientific Name

Romulea minutiflora Klatt

Synonyms

Romulea columnae Sebast. & Mauri (misapplied)

Family

Iridaceae

Common Names

frutang, lesser Guildford grass, small flower onion grass, small onion grass, small onion-grass, small-flower onion grass, small-flower onion-grass, small-flowered onion grass, small-flowered onion-grass

Origin

Native to southern Africa (i.e. South Africa).

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in southern Australia (i.e. in some parts of southern and eastern New South Wales, in Victoria and Tasmania and in the southern parts of South Australia). Also occasionally naturalised in the inland regions of south-western Western Australia and sparingly naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Small-flowered onion grass (Romulea minutiflora) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.