Haworthia angustifoliaHaw.

WFO wfo-0000648762 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Haworthia angustifolia, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. a Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-05 / obs. 155408635
Haworthia angustifolia, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. b Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155408213
Haworthia angustifolia, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. c Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155408358
Haworthia angustifolia, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. d Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155408810

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Haworthia angustifolia is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Haworthia angustifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aloe stenophylla Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Catevala angustifolia (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Haworthia albanensis Schönland
  • Haworthia altissima (M.B.Bayer) M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia angustifolia f. baylissii (C.L.Scott) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia angustifolia f. grandis (G.G.Sm.) Pilbeam
  • Haworthia angustifolia f. paucifolia (G.G.Sm.) Pilbeam
  • Haworthia angustifolia var. albanensis (Schönland) Poelln.
  • Haworthia angustifolia var. grandis G.G.Sm.
  • Haworthia angustifolia var. liliputana Uitewaal
  • Haworthia baylissii C.L.Scott
  • Haworthia chloracantha subsp. angustifolia (Haw.) Halda
  • Haworthia chloracantha subsp. baylissii (C.L.Scott) Halda
  • Haworthia chloracantha var. angustifolia (Haw.) Halda
  • Haworthia paucifolia (G.G.Sm.) M.Hayashi

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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