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Haworthia tessellata

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Identification
Haworthia tessellata Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HAWORTHIA tessellata 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 tessellata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1824, 300;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 211.
Aloe tessellata Roem. et Schultes [family ALOACEAE], Syst. Veg. vii. 635; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. viii. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 508.
Information
rosette of leaves sessile, about 2 in. long, 3–4 in. diam.; leaves 12–15, multifarious, deltoid, recurved, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick, firm in texture, flattish on the face, marked with six pale green anastomosing vertical lines on a darker shining green ground, dull green on the rounded back and rough all over with small raised coriaceous tubercles, cuspidate at the apex; margin ciliated with minute reflexed teeth; peduncle slender, simple, about 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, simple, secund, few-flowered; pedicels 1/12– 1/8 in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth 3/4 in. long; limb half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie about 1822.

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