Species Haworthia magnifica
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There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia magnifica.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Haworthia:
For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Etymology of magnifica:
from Latin meaning magnificent.
Scientific name:
Haworthia magnifica Poelln.
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Synonym of:
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Synonym status:
Acaulescent succulent to 8 cm diam., rosettes dark. Leaves dark green, opaque, flat above and rough, apices usually abruptly recurved and tapering to point, lightly tubercled. Flowers white, green on tepal keels. Apr.--May. Rock outcrops in renosterveld, KM, LB (Heidelberg to Gourits River valley).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia magnifica.
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