[1] The genus name Haworthia honors the British botanist Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), while the species epitheton mucronata ("pointy") derives from Latin and refers to the pointed leaf-shape.

It also hybridises naturally with Haworthia arachnoidea in habitat, and the two seem to form a continuum.

The leaves are mildly incurved, ovate-lanceolate, and are packed – dense and numerous – within the rosette.

[2] This species is relatively common in habitat, being found from Barrydale to Oudtshoorn.

It is endemic to the Little Karoo region, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.