Gasteria carinata

Gasteria carinata
Gasteria carinata in cultivation, showing juvenile form at the bottom
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Asphodelaceae
Subfamily:	Asphodeloideae
Genus:	Gasteria
Species:	G. carinata
Binomial name
Gasteria carinata (J.Jacq.) Haw. / (Mill.) Duval

Gasteria carinata ("Bredasdorp Gasteria" or "Keeled Gasteria") is a small and variable succulent plant, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

This is a highly variable species. Typically it has sharp, triangular leaves, mottled in colour and channeled on their upper surface. The leaves have sharp points at their tips, and usually have keels in mature plants. The tiny spots on the leaves are arranged in bands, giving the leaves faint stripes (similar to Gasteria batesiana).

It is proliferous and can form dense clumps.

The natural range of this species is the southern stretch of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Here it occurs in rocky areas in Renosterveld and Fynbos vegetation, between Hermanus and Mossel Bay.

Its closest relative is the enormous "Dune Gasteria (Gasteria acinacifolia) to the east.

This is a variable species, with a range of officially defined varieties, and also with several unofficial forms - several of which have become popular ornamental cultivars.

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