Haworthia lockwoodii
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Haworthia lockwoodii is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet lockwoodii honors Stanley George Lockwood-Hill (* 1903), magistrate in the South African city of Laingsburg.
description
Haworthia lockwoodii grows without a trunk and sprouts slowly. At the location, the plants have retreated into the ground. The numerous egg-shaped, inwardly curved leaves form a rosette with a diameter of up to 10 centimeters. The pale green leaf blade is 7 inches long and 2 inches wide. Your tips are dying back. The leaf surface is smooth. The leaf margin and leaf quill are usually not thorny. The leaves become translucent towards the tip.
The solid inflorescence consists of numerous, large flowers that lie against the inflorescence axis. Its flower tube is flat at the base.
Systematics and distribution
Haworthia lockwoodii is widespread in the South African province of Western Cape in the southwest of the Great Karoo .
The first description by Eily Edith Agnes Archibald was published in 1940. A synonym is Haworthia mucronata subsp. lockwoodii (Archibald) Halda (1997).
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literature
- Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia lockwoodii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 219 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Who's who of Southern Africa . Volume 54, p. 558.
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 139.
- ↑ Flowering Plants of South Africa Volume 20, 1940, plate 792.
Web links
- Haworthia lockwoodii in the Red List of South African Plants