Entry for HAWORTHIA Reinwardtii 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 ReinwardtiiHaw. [family ALOACEAE], Revis. 53;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 202.
Aloe ReinwardtiiSalm-Dyck [family ALOACEAE], Obs. 37; Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 16; Kunth, Enum. iv. 506.
Information
leafy stem 4–6 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. diam., leaves included, copiously stoloniferous; leaves all ascending, multifarious, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, 1/4 in. thick, pale green when young, reddish-brown when old, turgid on the face, rounded on the back, obscurely keeled, with 9–11 vertical rows of raised white tubercles 1/3 lin. diam.; peduncle slender, simple, 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, about 1/2 ft. long; pedicels very short; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth 5/8 in. long; limb half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Herr Reinwardt in 1818.
