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Haworthia fasciata

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Name

Identification
Haworthia fasciata (Willd.) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HAWORTHIA fasciata 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 fasciata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Revis. 54;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 204.
Aloe fasciata Salm-Dyck [family ALOACEAE], Hort. 326; Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 15; Kunth, Enum. iv. 506.
Apicra fasciata Willd. [family ALOACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 272.
Information
leafy stem short; rosette of leaves about 3 in. diam.; leaves 40–60, multifarious, ascending, lanceolate-deltoid, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, 1/8 in. thick, glaucous-green, flat on the face or rather concave, without any tubercles, rounded on the back and keeled upwards, with about 20 transverse bands of white middle-sized tubercles; peduncle simple or forked, 1/2 ft. long; racemes lax, few-flowered; pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth 5/8– 3/4 in. long; limb half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the present century.

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