Haworthia pubescens M.B.Bayer

Rosette acaulescent, 2.5-4 mm diam., up to 50 leaves. Stem thick, white-fleshed, 1/2 diam. of rosette, seldom elongate, seldom proliferous. Roots thick, firm, white-fleshed, non-fibrous. Leaves erect, spreading, incurved at tips, firm, upto 30 mm long, 8 mm broad, 4 mm thick, ovate-lanceolate acuminate, aristate with setiferous bristle up to 2 mm long, very dark-green with frosted appearance, longitudinal lines sometimes distinct; face flat to concave at base, convex turgid toward middle and tip; slightly to moderately muricate, excrescences frequently spined; back convex, keeled from near base, moderately to densely muricate, excrescences frequently spined, frequently with a second keel near middle or toward margins, spines on keel not in clearly defined rows, margins sub-acute, spined; spines white, up to 0.5 mm long, 0.20,3 mm apart. Peduncle simple 1 mm diam., 10-15 mm long including raceme, pinkish-brown; raceme 5-8 mm long, 8-10 flowers with 1-2 open; pedicels 1-3 mm long, 1 mm diam.; sterile bracts 8-15, 4-7 mm long; fertile bracts 5-7.5 mm long. Perianth white, rounded triangular at base, 13-14 mm long; segments regular stellate, outer segments slightly plicate at tips, inner lower segments with upper margins incurved to tips, nerves pinkish-brown; buds partly biarcuate, narrowly elongate, bifid at tips.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.