Haworthiopsis scabra

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 scabra, photographed by Nicola van Berkel — fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-06-22 / obs. 20829901

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000256798
Filed as: Haworthia tuberculata Poelln.
Det. by: Unknown
Collected: Dyer, R.A. 1932-08-09
Origin: ZA
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Haworthiopsis scabra, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
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 23 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 scabra (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.
Catevala scabra (Haw.) Kuntze
Haworthia johanii (M.Hayashi) Breuer
Haworthia lateganiae Poelln.
Haworthia morrisiae Poelln.
Haworthia pumila var. smitii (Poelln.) Halda
Haworthia scabra Haw.
Haworthia scabra subsp. starkiana (Poelln.) Halda
Haworthia scabra var. johanii M.Hayashi
Haworthia scabra var. lateganiae (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
Haworthia scabra var. morrisiae (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
Haworthia scabra var. scabra
Haworthia scabra var. starkiana (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
Haworthia scabra var. tuberculata (Poelln.) Halda
Haworthia smitii Poelln.
Haworthia starkiana Poelln.
Haworthia starkiana var. lateganiae (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
Haworthia tuberculata Poelln.
Haworthia tuberculata var. acuminata Poelln.
Haworthia tuberculata var. augustata Poelln.
Haworthia tuberculata var. subexpansa Poelln.
Haworthia tuberculata var. sublaevis Poelln.
Haworthiopsis scabra var. johanii (M.Hayashi) Breuer

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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