romulea sabulosa is a perennial geophyte that is assigned to the family iridaceae. it has a few grooved thread-like leaves, and relatively large burgundy red trimerous flowers, reminiscent of crocus flowers, with yellow to light greenish with black markings and stamens with light green free filaments. it only occurs on sandy clay on renosterveld west of nieuwoudtville in the northern cape province south africa. it is called satynblom in afrikaans.