Haworthia vlokii

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

Haworthia vlokii is a species of the genus Haworthia in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet vlokii honors the South African environmental advisor and plant collector Jan HJ Vlok (* 1957).

description

Haworthia vlokii grows stemless and sprouts. The spread to almost upright leaves form a rosette with a diameter of 4 to 5 centimeters. The opaque leaf blade is covered with indistinct white dots towards its tip. The leaf edge and the leaf keel have short thorns .

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 30 to 45 centimeters. The flowers are white and brownish pink.

Systematics and distribution

Haworthia vlokii is widespread in the South African province of Western Cape in the Little Karoo on the Swartberg Mountains .

The first description by Martin Bruce Bayer was published in 1999.

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literature

Martin Bruce Bayer , Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Haworthia vlokii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 230-231 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 254.
^ Martin Bruce Bayer: Haworthia Revisited . Umdaus Press, 1999, pp. 160-161.

Web links

Haworthia vlokii in the Red List of South African Plants
Photo by Haworthia vlokii

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 254.

[2] Martin Bruce Bayer: Haworthia Revisited . Umdaus Press, 1999, pp. 160-161.