Haworthia emelyae var. comptoniana (G.G.Sm.) J.D.Venter & S.A.Hammer

Rosette acaulescent, up to 8.5 cm across, not or hardly proliferous from the base. Leaves about 20, spreading, incurved at tip, firm, 45 mm long, 20 mm broad at base of end-area; 16 mm thick, obovate, deltoid, with a short (1.5 mm) whitish end-awn; face below end-area concave, becoming flat-turgid above, smooth; end-area retused at an angle of about 90 degrees, 24 mm long, convex, ± flat near tip, smooth or with a few small raised concolorous tubercles, and with white oblong longitudinally arranged flecks, pellucid-green, brownish at tip, shining, with 5-7 short and long very reticulate lines of which 1-2 nearly reach the tip; back convex, smooth, with small ± round immersed light green spots, some of which towards the margins are beset with minute teeth, light bright green below, dark green above, dull, with a number of indistinct longitudinal lines; keel 1, obliquely arranged near tip, with small light green teeth in the upper 1/4; margins acute below, rounded towards the tip, beset with small light green to pellucid teeth which are smaller towards the base of leaf and tubercle-like above, along end-area entire. Peduncle simple, fully 1 mm diam., 22 cm long including the raceme, dark brown below; raceme 5 cm long, about 16 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 2 open at a time; pedicels 1 mm long, 1.25 mm diam., green; sterile bracts 14, 6 mm long, the lowest longer and 1.5 cm from base of peduncle; fertile bracts 6 mm long, deltoid, acuminate-subulate, white with a medium-fine dark brown nerve; perianth white, 18 mm long, the cylindrical-triangular base 5 mm diam., gradually constricted to 3.5 mm above, ascending, ± curved; upper segments obtuse, channelled, face colour of the 2 outer ones white with a fine greenish-brown nerve, recurved, ± spreading, face colour of the inner one dull white at tip, light brown below, with a medium-fine greenish-brown nerve, only slightly recurved; lower segments obtuse, channelled, face colour of the 2 outer ones dull white at tip, light brown below, with a medium-fine green nerve, very recurved, spreading, face colour of the inner one white with a fine greenish-brown nerve, revolute; stamens 5.5 and 6.5 mm long; ovary 3.5 mm long, 1.75 mm diam., light green; style 3/4 mm long, white, bent, capitate.