Haworthia rossouwii var. rossouwii (M.B.Bayer) Halda

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette varying between 4 and 11 cm diam. Leaves about 70, the young erect, With tips incurved, the old somewhat spreading, ascending, with tips incurved, about 6 cm long, up to 15 mm broad, and about 5 mm thick at the middle, ovate, lanceolate to acuminate, olive-green; upper surface flat to convex, concave at base, smooth, semi-pellucid, with a number of indistinct lines; lower surface convex, smooth, not pellucid; keel 1, centrally positioned in the upper third, armed with 2 mm long pellucid teeth; margins acute, with 3 mm long deltoid to cuspidate teeth; end-awn up to 20 mm long, yellow-brown, with small teeth. Inflorescence about 50 cm tall; peduncle simple, about 2 mm diam., 32 cm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, ovate, abruptly long acuminate, about 11 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme about 18 cm long, lax, with about 20 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 3 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 6 mm long, deltoid, acute, keeled with greenish-brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels 4 mm long, 1 mm diam., green, erect; perianth 18 mm long, white, with green keels to the segments, compressed at base, curved, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments with lobes free, little spreading, little recurved, white with greenish-brown veins; exterior part recurved, spreading, white with green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths 9 and 10 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 3 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 2 mm long, curved, capitate. Flowering: September through October, and sometimes into November.