Haworthia floribunda Poelln.

Plants acaulescent, in a basal rosette, 60 to 70 mm diam., (not or) slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves about 20, the young erect, the old ascending to spreading, about 35 mm long, 4 to 9 mm broad, up to 8 mm thick, variously shaped at the base, either distinctly ovate to lanceolate, or narrowed from the base to the apex, then often expanded towards the apex, rounded at the apex or pointed; green or brown-green; upper surface flat or slightly convex, often grooved in the middle, smooth or slightly scabrous, not pellucid; lower surface convex, not pellucid, smooth or a little scabrous; keel 1, centrally positioned in the upper half, finely dentate; margins from the middle to the apex minutely dentate, acute; end-awn 1 mm long, white, smooth. Inflorescence about 230 mm tall; peduncle simple, terete, about 1 mm diam., 160 mm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, ovate, abruptly long acuminate, about 4 mm long, erect, keeled, cloaking the peduncle at the base; raceme about 70 mm long, lax, with about 10 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 1 to 2 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 3 mm long, deltoid, acute, keeled with fine brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (equal in length to the pedicels); pedicels 3 mm long, 1 mm diam., light green, erect; perianth white with green keels to the segments, 13 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, curved, tube more or less 3 mm across, constricted to 2 mm above; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments with lobes free, recurved, spreading, with fine green veins; exterior part strongly recurved, spreading, white with brownish-green veins, channelled; stamens 6 of two lengths 6 and 7 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 5 mm long, 1.75 mm diam., green; style 1 mm long, curved, capitate.