Haworthiopsis venosa (Lam.) G.D.Rowley

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette which is about 8-10 cm diam., proliferous from the leaf axils and forming clusters. Leaves about 20, the young erect, little recurved, rigid, falcate, the old ascending, spreading, little recurved, about 8 cm long, 17 mm broad, up to 6 mm thick, lanceolate-triangular, tapering, mucronate, brownish-green; upper surface concave at the base, flat towards the middle, channelled near the apex, leaf-tips replicate, with 5-6 longitudinal lines which are tessellately connected; lower surface strongly rounded, rough with small concolorous irregularly distributed tubercles, or in transverse bands; keel 1, positioned in the upper third, rough; margins acute, with irregularly spaced 0.75 mm long, reflexed pellucid teeth. Inflorescence about 65 cm tall; peduncle simple, terete, about 1.5 mm diam., 29 cm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, ovate, acuminate, about 4 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme about 36 cm long, lax, with about 24 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 3 open simultaneously; floral bracts 3 mm long, membranous, deltoid, acute, keeled with fine brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (shorter than the pedicels); pedicels 6 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., green, erect; perianth white with broad brownish-green keels to the segments, 15 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 3 mm across, constricted to 2 mm above, straight; segments not free to the base; limb 2 lipped; posterior segments not spreading, little recurved, the inner segments curved inwards, white with brown veins; exterior part strongly recurved, spreading, white with brown veins, replicate; stamens 6 of two lengths, 9 and 10 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 5 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 5 mm long, yellow-green, straight, capitate.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.