Haworthia cymbiformis

Haworthia cymbiformis is a highly variable species with windowed or partly translucent, soft green leaves in a compact, ground-level rosette. It varies in leaf and rosette size as well as in leaf shape and thickness. The leaves have variable patches or lines of the translucent areas. They attenuate to sharp points from a squat or broad to a narrower, elongated triangular base.

The species distribution ranges from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) to about East London in the Eastern Cape in a broad coastal and inland belt. The region is not particularly large when considering that about ten varieties of this plant have been named, all occurring here. Five varieties are recognised by SANBI early in the twenty first century. Stands of the varieties occur, each colony comparatively stable in representing its kind, but several hybrids with other plants have been recorded. The range of recorded names and name changes for this plant is quite impressive, reflecting the variability within the species.

The habitat is rocky thicket. The status of the habitat population is unknown early in the twenty first century (http://haworthia-gasteria.blogspot.com, www.haworthia.org.uk, ww.desert-tropicals.com; http://redlst.sanbi.org).