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Haworthia viscosa

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Haworthia viscosa (L.) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bayer,M.B., 1978
Related name
  • Haworthia viscosa
  • Haworthia beanii

Flora

Entry for HAWORTHIA viscosa 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 viscosa Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 90;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 200.
Aloe viscosa Linn. [family ALOACEAE], Sp. Plant. 460; Miller, Dict. edit. viii. No. 11; Thunb. Diss. No. 2; DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 16; Bot. Mag. t. 814; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. iii. fig. 3.
Apicra viscosa Willd. [family ALOACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 274.
Aloe triangularis Lam. [family ALOACEAE], Encyc. i. 89.
Information
leafy stem 1/2–1 ft. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. diam., leaves included; leaves regularly trifarious, all ascending, ovate, 1–1 1/4 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, 1/6 in. thick, dull green, all deeply concave on the face, without spots or tubercles, rugose, sometimes but not always viscous, rounded on the back, acutely keeled towards the apex; peduncle slender, simple, 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, 3–6 in. long; pedicels erecto-patent, 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts minute, ovate; perianth 3/4 in. long; limb one-third as long as the tube. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION stony mountain sides near Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 559!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Figured both by Dillenius and Commelyn.

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