Haworthiopsis coarctata(Haw.) G.D.Rowley

WFO wfo-0001338834 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by James Deacon
fig. a James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-18 / obs. 103118471
Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102991176
Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103115289
Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by Henry de Lange
fig. d Henry de Lange, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43885504
Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by James Deacon
fig. e James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102991191
Haworthiopsis coarctata, photographed by James Deacon
fig. f James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102991198

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Haworthiopsis coarctata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Haworthiopsis coarctata, 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 47 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 coarctata (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Catevala coarctata (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Catevala greenii (Baker) Kuntze
  • Catevala peacockii (Baker) Kuntze
  • Haworthia adelaidensis (Poelln.) Breuer
  • Haworthia baccata G.G.Sm.
  • Haworthia chalwinii Marloth & A.Berger
  • Haworthia coarctata Haw.
  • Haworthia coarctata f. bellula (G.G.Sm.) Pilbeam
  • Haworthia coarctata f. chalwinii (Marloth & A.Berger) Pilbeam
  • Haworthia coarctata f. conspicua (Poelln.) Pilbeam
  • Haworthia coarctata f. greenii (Baker) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia coarctata f. major Resende
  • Haworthia coarctata f. pseudocoarctata Resende
  • Haworthia coarctata subsp. adelaidensis (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia coarctata var. adelaidensis (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia coarctata var. coarctata
  • Haworthia coarctata var. greenii (Baker) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia coarctata var. haworthii Resende
  • Haworthia coarctata var. kraussii Resende
  • Haworthia coarctata var. tenuis (G.G.Sm.) M.B.Bayer
  • Haworthia coarctatoides Resende & Viveiros
  • Haworthia fallax Poelln.
  • Haworthia fulva G.G.Sm.

and 23 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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