Haworthiopsis scabra (Haw.) G.D.Rowley

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette which is about 40 to 60 mm diam., proliferous from the base and forming clusters. Leaves about 14, the young erect, incurved, the old ascending, somewhat spreading, laterally curved from the middle towards the base, up to 70 mm long, 20 mm broad near the base, up to 10 mm thick, ovate-lanceolate, with a pungent yellow tip, greyish-green, falcate, firm; upper surface concave or grooved, smooth or with a few small smooth scattered tubercles; tower surface rounded, with transverse rows of confluent and smooth tubercles; keel 1, centrally positioned, tubercled; margins rounded from the base to the middle, acute above, with smooth, scattered or confluent tubercles. Inflorescence about 58 cm tall; peduncle slender, simple or occasionally branched, the lower part without bracts, brown, 2 mm diam., the branches subtended by a 4 mm long bract, keeled; raceme about 28 cm long, lax, with about 35 spirally arranged flowers and buds, two open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 2 mm long, deltoid, acute, keeled with pinkish-brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (shorter than the pedicels); pedicels 3 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., grey-green, recumbent-erect; perianth pinkish-white with grey-green keels to the segments, 16 mm long, straight, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above; segments not free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments with lobes free, recurved, not spreading, white with green veins; exterior part recurved, not or little spreading, replicate, white with green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths 9 and 10 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 4 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 4 mm long, capitate.