Haworthia mucronata

Haworthia mucronata
	Haworthia mucronata
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Haworthia
Type :	Haworthia mucronata
Scientific name
	Haworthia mucronata
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Haworthia mucronata is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae).

description

Haworthia mucronata grows stemless and sprouts. The 30 to 45 inwardly curved, broadly ovate-lanceolate leaves form a rosette with a diameter of 6 to 12 centimeters. The soft leaf blade is slightly translucent. There are often thorns on the translucent leaf edge and the translucent leaf keel .

The powerful inflorescence reaches a length of up to 40 centimeters and consists of numerous, densely arranged, wide flowers . The white flowers have a green vein.

Systematics and distribution

Haworthia mucronata is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape in the east of the Little Karoo .

The first description by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1819. Nomenclatory synonyms are Aloe mucronata (Haw.) Roem. & School f. (1829) and Haworthia altilinea var. Morrisiae (Haw.) Poelln. (1937).

A distinction is made between the following varieties :

Haworthia mucronata var. Mucronata
Haworthia mucronata var. Habdomadis (Poelln.) MBBayer
Haworthia mucronata var. Inconfluens (Poelln.) MBBayer
Haworthia mucronata var. Morrisiae (Poelln.) Poelln.
Haworthia mucronata var. Rycroftiana (MBBayer) MBBayer

proof

literature

Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia mucronata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 223-224 .

Individual evidence

^ 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. 50–51 (online)

Web links

Haworthia mucronata var. Mucronata in the Red List of South African Plants
Haworthia mucronata var. Habdomadis in the Red List of South African Plants
Haworthia mucronata var. Inconfluens in the Red List of South African Plants
Haworthia mucronata var. Morrisiae in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] 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. 50–51 (online)