Haworthia mucronata Haw.

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette, 3 to 7 cm diam., proliferous from the base and forming small clusters. Leaves about 40, the young erect, incurved, the old ascending to spreading, incurved, 3 to 8 cm long, up to 12 mm broad, 6 mm thick, pellucid, pale green or yellow-green with dark brown leaf tips, oblanceolate to oblong tapering; upper surface flat to convex, smooth, pellucid or semi-pellucid from the apex to about the middle of the leaf, the remainder green, with 5 to 9 longer and shorter longitudinal lines, these only visible in the pellucid area, often becoming reticulate towards the middle of the leaf; lower surface rounded, with 8 to 11 longitudinally arranged lines, pellucid from the apex to the middle, smooth; keel 1, in the upper half, smooth; margins rough or lightly toothed; end-awn up to 8 mm long, smooth. Inflorescence up to 39 cm tall; peduncle simple, terete, about 2.5 mm diam., 18 cm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, ovate, abruptly long acuminate, about 11 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme about 21 cm long, lax, with about 38 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 9 to 10 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 8 mm long, deltoid, top acute, keeled with broad brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels 1 mm long, 1 mm diam., green, erect; perianth white with grey-green keels to the segments, 14 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 6 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above, curved; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments slightly recurved, not spreading, white with greyish veins; exterior part strongly recurved, spreading, white with green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths, 9 and 10 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 6 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 1 mm long, straight, not capitate.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.