Haworthia aristata

Haworthia aristata
	Haworthia aristata
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Haworthia
Type :	Haworthia aristata
Scientific name
	Haworthia aristata
	Haw.

Haworthia aristata is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). Thespecific epithet aristata comes from Latin , means 'awned' and refers to the awn-like leaf tips.

description

Haworthia aristata grows without a trunk and sprouts slowly. The slender, upright, inwardly curved leaves form a rosette with a diameter of up to 6 centimeters. The dark green leaf blade is hardly translucent. There is a faint mesh pattern on the leaf surface. The leaf margin and leaf keel are entire or finely thorny.

The loose inflorescence reaches a length of up to 15 centimeters and consists of ten to 15 white flowers .

Systematics and distribution

Haworthia aristata is widespread in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

The first description by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1819.

Synonyms are Aloe aristata (Haw.) Roem. & School f. (1829, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1) Haworthia denticulata Haw. (1821), Aloe denticulata (Haw.) Roem. & School f. (1829), Aloe altilinea var. Denticulata Salm-Dyck (1842) and Haworthia altilinea var. Denticulata (Haw.) Poelln. (1938).

proof

literature

Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia aristata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 210-211 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 15.
^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas . In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, pp. 51-52 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Haworthia aristata - collection of images, videos and audio files

Haworthia aristata in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 15.

[2] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas . In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, pp. 51-52 ( online ).