Species Haworthia turgida
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There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia turgida.
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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 turgida:
From the Latin turgidus meaning ‘swollen / inflated’; frequently referring to the shape of the flowers
Scientific name:
Haworthia turgida Haw.
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Synonym status:
Acaulescent succulent with proliferous rosettes borne at ground level. Leaves turgid, pale yellowish green, mottled translucent, spreading and flat above, smooth. Flowers white. Aug.--Sept. Rock crevices in sandstone or shale in fynbos, renosterveld, or karroid veld, SW, LB, AP (Bredasdorp to Mossel Bay).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Haworthia turgida.
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