Haworthia marginata

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

Haworthia marginata is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet marginata comes from Latin and means 'bordered'.

description

Haworthia marginata grows without a trunk and sprouts slowly. The 50 to 60 narrowed, spread, lanceolate-triangular leaves form a rosette with a height of up to 20 centimeters. The pale brownish green leaf blade is up to 18 inches long and 2 inches wide. The leaf surface is smooth. There are no warts on it.

The loose inflorescence is sparsely branched. The flower tube is straight. The tepals are short and have pink-red veins.

Systematics and distribution

Haworthia marginata is widespread in the South African province of Western Cape near Heidelberg .

It was first described as Aloe marginata in 1783 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck . William Thomas Stearn put the species in 1938 in the genus Haworthia .

There are numerous synonyms .

proof

literature

Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia marginata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 220 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 147.
^ Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique . Volume 1, Part 1, Paris 1783, p. 89 ( online ).
^ William T. Stearn: An annotated Index to Salm-Dyck's “Monographia Generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi” . In: Cactus Journal . Volume 7, Croydon 1938, p. 39.

Web links

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Haworthia marginata 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. 147.

[2] Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique . Volume 1, Part 1, Paris 1783, p. 89 ( online ).

[3] William T. Stearn: An annotated Index to Salm-Dyck's “Monographia Generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi” . In: Cactus Journal . Volume 7, Croydon 1938, p. 39.