{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Romnalda strobilacea imported from iNaturalist photo 180203280 on 3 November 2023.jpg | image_caption = ''Romnalda strobilacea'' | taxon = Romnalda | authority = P.F.Stevens<ref name=APNI/> }}
'''''Romnalda''''' is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae.<ref name=Angiosperm-Phylogeny-Website/> (They have also been placed in the Xanthorrhoeaceae.) {{As of|2013|Dec}} four formally named species are known and accepted by botanical science.<ref name=APNI/><ref name=Conran-et-al.-2008/><ref name=WCSP-Romnalda/>
The name ''Romnalda'' is an anagram of ''Lomandra'', a related though more common genus of hard–leaved lily-like plants. The genus ''Romnalda'' differs from Lomandra in growing exclusively in rainforests and having sparsely branched inflorescences with no spines.
Plants have strap-like leaves and grow up to one metre (3 feet) tall often with a trunk and stilt roots reminiscent of a miniature ''Pandanus''. Species of ''Romnalda'' grow naturally in Queensland and Papua New Guinea.
==Species== * ''R. grallata'' – restricted to cloud forests on a few misty peaks in the Daintree Rainforest, Wet Tropics region, north-eastern Queensland.<ref name=Coopers-2004/><ref name="RFK"/> * ''R. ophiopogonoides'',<ref name=Conran-et-al.-2008/> synonym: ''Romnalda'' sp. Cooper Creek (P.I.Forster+ PIF4402) Qld Herbarium – only found in a few isolated locations around Cooper Creek, Wet Tropics region, north-eastern Queensland; and has obtained the Queensland government's official conservation status listing of "vulnerable" species.<ref name=QLD-NatureConWiR06/> * ''R. papuana'' – only found in a handful of locations in Papua New Guinea including the island of New Britain.<ref name=PNG-Herbarium-poster/> * ''R. strobilacea'' – restricted to basaltic soils north of Brisbane in South East Queensland, Australia;<ref name=Mangroves-to-Mountains/> and has obtained the Australian national and Queensland governments' official conservation status listings of "vulnerable" species.<ref name=QLD-NatureConWiR06/><ref name=EPBC-SPRAT-R.-strobilacea/>
== References == {{Reflist | 27em | refs=
<ref name=APNI> {{Cite web | title= ''Romnalda''% | url= http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=Romnalda%25 | accessdate= 8 Dec 2013 | type= listing by % wildcard matching of all taxa relevant to Australia | work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) database | publisher= Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government }} </ref>
<ref name=Angiosperm-Phylogeny-Website> {{Cite web | last1= Stevens | first1= Peter F. | orig-year= 2001 onwards | date= Sep 2013 | url= http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Laxmanniaceae | title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website – Asparagales: Lomandroideae | version= Version 13, 28 Sep 2013 with ongoing updates | accessdate= 1 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name=Conran-et-al.-2008> {{Cite journal | last1= Conran | first1= John G. | last2= Forster | first2= Paul I. | last3= Donnon | first3= Mathew | year= 2008 | title= ''Romnalda ophiopogonoides'' (Asparagales: Laxmanniaceae), a new and endangered species from the Wet Tropics bioregion of north-east Queensland | journal= Telopea | volume= 12 | issue= 2 | doi= 10.7751/telopea20085808 | at= pp. 167-178, figs. 3-5 | url= http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/95394/Tel122167Con.pdf | accessdate= 8 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name=WCSP-Romnalda> {{Cite web | title= ''Romnalda''| work= World Checklist of Selected Plant Families | publisher= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | url= http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Romnalda | accessdate= 4 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name=Mangroves-to-Mountains> {{Cite book | author= S.G.A.P. (Qld Region) Logan River Branch Inc | year= 2005 | title= Mangroves to Mountains: A field guide to the native plants of south-east Queensland | volume= 2 | location= Browns Plains, Qld | publisher= Logan River Branch SGAP (Qld Region) Inc. }} </ref>
<ref name=QLD-NatureConWiR06> {{Cite web | url= http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/CURRENT/N/NatureConWiR06.pdf | author= Queensland Government | date= 27 Sep 2013 | title= Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006 | page= 55 | work= Nature Conservation Act 1992 | location= Australia | publisher= | version= Online, accessed from www.legislation.qld.gov.au | accessdate= 1 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name="RFK">{{cite web |author1=F.A.Zich |author2=B.P.M.Hyland |author3=T.Whiffen |author4=R.A.Kerrigan |author2-link=Bernard Hyland |year=2020 |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Romnalda_grallata.htm |title=''Romnalda grallata'' |website=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8) |publisher=Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=Coopers-2004> {{Cite book | last1= Cooper | first1= Wendy | last2= Cooper | first2= William T. | authorlink2= William T. Cooper |date=June 2004 | contribution= ''Romnalda'' P.F.Stevens | contribution-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=s0JFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Romnalda%22 | title= Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest | page= 561 | place= Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia | publisher= Nokomis Editions | isbn= 9780958174213 | url= http://nokomis.com.au/fruits.html | accessdate= 1 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
<ref name=PNG-Herbarium-poster> Papua New Guinea National Herbarium, Lae, Morobe Province, Poster Ecology and Conservation of ''Romnalda papuana''. </ref>
<ref name=EPBC-SPRAT-R.-strobilacea> {{SPRAT | id= 5948 | name= ''Romnalda strobilacea'' | accessdate= 5 Dec 2013 }} </ref>
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* Henderson, R. J. F. (1986).In: George, A. S. (ed.) ''Flora of Australia'', Vol. 46. Canberra: Australian Government Publishment Service, pp. 91–92
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