Haworthia bolusii

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

Haworthia bolusii is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet bolusii honors the South African banker Harry Bolus (1834–1911).

description

Haworthia bolusii grows without a trunk and sprouts slowly. The inwardly curved, elongated lanceolate leaves form a rosette with a diameter of 4 to 8 centimeters. The translucent leaf blade is bluish green. On the leaf edge and on the leaf keel there are thorns with a length of more than 2 millimeters.

The powerful inflorescence reaches a length of up to 30 centimeters. The broad flowers are flat at the base of the flower tube.

Systematics and distribution

Haworthia bolusii is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape .

The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1880. A nomenclatory synonym is Haworthia arachnoidea var. Bolusii (Baker) Halda (1997).

A distinction is made between the following varieties :

Haworthia bolusii var. Bolusii
Haworthia bolusii var. Blackbeardiana (Poelln.) MBBayer

proof

literature

Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia bolusii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 212 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 28.
↑ John Gilbert Baker: A Synopsis of Aloineae and Yuccoideae . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 18, London 1881, pp. 215-216 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Haworthia bolusii - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Haworthia bolusii var. Bolusii in the Red List of South African Plants
Haworthia bolusii var. Blackbeardiana 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. 28.

[2] John Gilbert Baker: A Synopsis of Aloineae and Yuccoideae . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 18, London 1881, pp. 215-216 ( online ).