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Haworthia is a large genus of small succulent plants endemic to Southern Africa (Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini and South Africa). [1]Like aloes and gasteria they are members of the subfamily Asphodeloideae and they generally resemble miniature aloes, except in their flowers, which are distinctive in appearance.
Tulista kingiana is a species of succulent plant, from the Western Cape, South Africa. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN global Red List. It was formerly classed in the genus Haworthia, as Haworthia kingiana. [3]
Haworthia magnifica is a succulent evergreen slow-growing species reaching a size of 40 cm in height. Its shape and brownish-greenish color serve to camouflage this plant on the ground. Its shape and brownish-greenish color serve to camouflage this plant on the ground.
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The genus Haworthia was long considered problematic, and suspected of being polyphyletic. It was accordingly divided into three different subgenera: Haworthia (the soft, green, leafy, and often retuse species); Hexangulares (the harder, often tubercled species); Robustipedunculares (the four largest, most robust species).
As one of the soft green group of Haworthias it is frequently confused with its relatives (e.g. Haworthia cooperi which shares a similar distribution range, as well as Haworthia mucronata and Haworthia marumiana to the west). A distinctive feature is the soft, "boat-shaped" leaves ("cymbiformis" actually means "boat-shaped").
This is to the far west of the natural range of the Haworthia truncata, and there are natural intermediates and hybrids on the boundary between the varieties. Haworthia truncata var. truncata. The type-variety of the species, under which the forms "minor" and "crassa" fall. "H. truncata f. minor" and "H. truncata f.
Haworthia maraisii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodeloideae, found in the southwest Cape Provinces of South Africa. It has been treated as a variety of either Haworthia magnifica or Haworthia mirabilis , but is accepted as a full species in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families .