Tulista pumila(L.) G.D.Rowley

WFO wfo-0001338856 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tulista pumila, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-10-17 / obs. 27076296
Tulista pumila, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. b Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59560070
Tulista pumila, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. c Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59271650
Tulista pumila, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15185598
Tulista pumila, photographed by Danie Palm
fig. e Danie Palm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188979215
Tulista pumila, photographed by Danie Palm
fig. f Danie Palm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144075624
Tulista pumila, photographed by Danie Palm
fig. g Danie Palm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144075470
Tulista pumila, photographed by Danie Palm
fig. h Danie Palm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144075299

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tulista pumila is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tulista pumila, 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 38 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 arachnoides var. pumila (L.) Aiton
  • Aloe granata Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe haworthii Sweet
  • Aloe margaritifera (L.) Burm.f.
  • Aloe margaritifera var. maxima Haw.
  • Aloe papillosa Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe pumila L.
  • Aloe pumila var. margaritifera L.
  • Aloe semiglabrata (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Aloe semimargaritifera Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe semimargaritifera var. major Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe semimargaritifera var. maxima (Haw.) Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe semimargaritifera var. minor Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe semimargaritifera var. multipapillosa Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe subalbicans Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe subalbicans var. acuminata Salm-Dyck
  • Aloe subalbicans var. laevior Salm-Dyck
  • Apicra margaritifera (L.) Willd.
  • Apicra maxima (Haw.) Steud.
  • Catevala margaritifera (L.) Kuntze
  • Catevala semiglabrata (Haw.) Kuntze
  • Haworthia corallina Baker
  • Haworthia margaritifera (L.) Haw.
  • Haworthia margaritifera var. laevior (Salm-Dyck) Uitewaal

and 14 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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