Tulista minor(Aiton) Gideon F.Sm. & Molteno

WFO wfo-0001420921 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tulista minor, photographed by sharndreheuvel
fig. a sharndreheuvel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-11-05 / obs. 171544731
Tulista minor, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. b Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51949117
Tulista minor, photographed by Charles Stirton
fig. c Charles Stirton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25406002
Tulista minor, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. d Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34498051
Tulista minor, photographed by kevin koen
fig. e kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192426507
Tulista minor, photographed by Charleen Brunke
fig. f Charleen Brunke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194408366
Tulista minor, photographed by Sean Privett
fig. g Sean Privett, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 49365212
Tulista minor, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. h Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27303752

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tulista minor is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tulista minor, 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 33 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 brevis Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Aloe erecta (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Aloe erecta var. laetivirens Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe granata Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Aloe granata var. major Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe granata var. minor Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe margaritifera var. major Aiton
  • Aloe margaritifera var. media DC.
  • Aloe margaritifera var. minima Aiton
  • Aloe margaritifera var. minor Aiton
  • Aloe minor (Aiton) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Apicra granata Willd.
  • Apicra minor (Aiton) Steud.
  • Catevala minima (Aiton) Kuntze
  • Haworthia brevis Haw.
  • Haworthia erecta Haw.
  • Haworthia granata (Willd.) Haw.
  • Haworthia granata var. polyphylla Haw.
  • Haworthia major (Aiton) Duval
  • Haworthia margaritifera var. corallina Baker
  • Haworthia margaritifera var. erecta (Haw.) Baker
  • Haworthia margaritifera var. granata (Willd.) Baker
  • Haworthia minima (Aiton) Haw.
  • Haworthia minima var. poellnitziana (Uitewaal) M.B.Bayer

and 9 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.