The triangular shaped leaves are green with narrow white crested strips on the outside.

The species has similar markings to Haworthiopsis attenuata, which is commonly grown as a house plant.

Unlike H. attenuata, older H. fasciata specimens also sometimes develop long columnal stems.

The most fundamental distinction, though not externally obvious, is that Haworthiopsis fasciata has fibrous leaves – unlike H. attenuata, but similar to H. glauca, H. coarctata, H. reinwardtii and H. longiana.

[3] [4][2][5][6] This species favours the acidic sands of the fynbos vegetation type, in the area near Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.