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Haworthia limifolia

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Type of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. keithii G.G.Sm. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Type of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. keithii G.G.Sm. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Type? of Haworthia limifolia Marloth forma tetraploidea Resende [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Holotype of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. gigantea M.B.Bayer [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Holotype of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. arcana Gideon F.Sm. & N.R.Crouch [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Filed as Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. ubomboensis (I.Verd.) G.G.Sm. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Isotype of Haworthia limifolia Marloth [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. limifolia
Type of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. striata J.Pilbeam [family ALOACEAE]
Filed as Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. limifolia [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Type of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. keithii G.G.Sm. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Filed as Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. limifolia [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Holotype of Haworthia ubomboensis I.Verd. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Type of Haworthia limifolia Marloth var. keithii G.G.Sm. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
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Identification
Haworthia limifolia Marloth [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Haworthia limifolia Marloth [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 48, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Haworthia limifolia Marloth [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 1: 409 (1910). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 170 (1981). —Bayer, New Haworthia Handb.: 69 (1982). —Scott, The Genus Haworthia: 31 (1985). Type: Mozambique, west of Delagoa Bay, fl. xii.1908, Medley Wood cult. in Marloth 4678 (PRE, holotype).
Information
Acaulescent perennial herb, suckering from the base to form dense clusters of plants. Leaves spreading-ascending in a compact rosette to c. 12 cm in diameter; lamina 3–10 cm long, 2–4 cm wide at the base, deltoid and tapering to a sharp point, thick and stiff, uniformly bright green, ridged or ± smooth on both surfaces, obscurely keeled towards the apex on the lower surface, margin lightly ridged. Inflorescence simple, erect to 35 cm high; peduncle up to 20 cm long with a few scattered sterile bracts below the raceme. Raceme to 15 cm long, laxly flowered, bracteate; bracts c. 3 × 1.5 mm, deltoid-acute, membranous; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Perianth c. 14 mm long, cylindrical, c. 3.5 mm in diameter across the ovary, narrowing towards the mouth, two-lipped; segments white with a greenish-brown midrib, upper segments ± straight and erect, lower segments with tips recurved. Stamens and stigma included. Capsule and seeds not seen.
Notes
For synonymy of the numerous varieties and forms (c. 15) distributed in South Africa see Scott, loc. cit.: 32 (1985).

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