Haworthia cooperi var. gracilis (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette which is about 5-5.5 cm diam., (not or) slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves numerous, the young erect, tips incurved, firm, the old ascending, hardly spreading, slightly incurved, about 4.5 cm long, up to 10 mm broad, up to 5 mm thick, ovate-oblong, reddish; upper surface flat to slightly convex, smooth, pellucid from the middle to the apex, about 20 mm long, with 5 longer or shorter red-brown longitudinal lines, only the centre line reaching the tip; lower surface convex, smooth, the pellucid part about 12 mm long, with about 8 longer and shorter, reddish-brown longitudinal lines, 3-4 converging at the tip; keel 1, in the upper third, centrally positioned, with about 1 mm long, pellucid scattered teeth; margins acute from the base of the leaf to about the middle, rounded above, with a single row of about 2 mm long pellucid teeth; end-awn up to 8 mm long, minutely toothed. Inflorescence about 37 cm tall; peduncle bracteate, slender, about 2 mm diam., simple, 16 cm long; sterile bracts membranous, ovate to acuminate, about 7 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme about 21 cm long, with about 24 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 5 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 6 mm long, deltoid, acute, keeled with reddish-brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels erect, brown, 4 mm long, 1 mm diam.; perianth greyish-white, with greenish-brown keels to the segments, 12 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments erect, little spreading, recurved with green veins; exterior part strongly recurved, translucent-white with reddish-brown veins, spreading, replicate; stamens 6 of two lengths 6 and 7 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 5 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 2 mm long, white, straight, capitate.