Haworthia bolusiiBaker

WFO wfo-0000649425 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. a Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-07 / obs. 152700963
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. b Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177412105
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. c Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177412539
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. d Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177412663
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. e Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105775181
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. f Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105775186
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. g Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175513494
Haworthia bolusii, photographed by Christiaan Viljoen
fig. h Christiaan Viljoen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114065549

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000256771
Filed as
Haworthia bolusii Baker
Det. by
Unknown
Collected
Bolus
Origin
ZA
The sheet
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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Haworthia bolusii is native: Cape Provinces, Free State Cape ProvincesFree State
Native distribution of Haworthia bolusii, 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
Free State OFS

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 26 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.

  • Catevala bolusii (Baker) Kuntze
  • Haworthia altilinea f. inermis (Poelln.) Poelln.
  • Haworthia altilinea var. inermis (Poelln.) Poelln.
  • Haworthia aquamarina M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia arachnoidea var. bolusii (Baker) Halda
  • Haworthia batteniae C.L.Scott
  • Haworthia blackbeardiana Poelln.
  • Haworthia blackbeardiana var. calaensis (Breuer) Breuer
  • Haworthia blackbeardiana var. major Poelln.
  • Haworthia blackbeardiana var. specksii (Breuer) Breuer
  • Haworthia calaensis Breuer
  • Haworthia capillaris M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia cooperi subsp. batteniae (C.L.Scott) Halda
  • Haworthia cooperi var. hisui (M.Hayashi) Breuer
  • Haworthia decipiens var. pringlei (C.L.Scott) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia hastata M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia hisui M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia inermis Poelln.
  • Haworthia lazulis M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia odetteae Breuer
  • Haworthia odetteae var. odyssei (M.Hayashi) Breuer
  • Haworthia odyssei M.Hayashi
  • Haworthia pringlei C.L.Scott
  • Haworthia pringlei var. hastata (M.Hayashi) Breuer

and 2 more.

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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