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Haworthia cymbiformis

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Name

Identification
Haworthia cymbiformis (Haw.) Duval [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Haworthia cymbiformis

Flora

Entry for HAWORTHIA cymbiformis Haw. [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
HAWORTHIA cymbiformis Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 93;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 209.
HAWORTHIA concava Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Revis. 58.
Aloe cymbiformis Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 802.
Aloe cymbæfolia Schrad. [family ALOACEAE], Neues Journ. ii. 17, t. 2; Jacq. Fragm. t. 112, fig. 1; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xi. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 511.
Apicra cymbæfolia Willd. [family ALOACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 271.
Information
rosettes shortly caulescent, dense, 3–4 in. diam.; leaves 20–25; multifarious, obovate, acute, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in. broad, 1/6– 1/5 in. thick, pale green, slightly concave, rounded on the back, keeled upwards, not distinctly aristate, pale glaucous green, marked especially in the upper half with indistinct anastomosing vertical lines of darker green; peduncle simple, 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, 1/2 ft. long; lower pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts small, ovate; perianth 5/8 in. long; segments nearly as long as the tube. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div., Bowker!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Masson in 1795.

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