Aloe buhrii Lavranos

Plants stemless, dividing into several heads. Leaves about 16, lanceolate-deltoid, arcuate-erect or ascending, up to 40 cm long, 9 cm broad at base, fleshy, rather soft; upper surface slightly canaliculate towards the apex, glaucous, reddish-tinged, distinctly striate and covered irregularly but in parts densely with pale, elongate or 'H'-shaped and often confluent spots: lower surface convex, otherwise as the upper; margins with a pale red, cartilaginous, denticulate or sub-entire border, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, the denticles obtuse, less than 1 mm long, usually 3.5 mm distant but often laterally confluent. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, up to 60 cm tall, branching above the middle into 7-15 rather short lateral branches, the lower ones rebranched, each branch or branchlet subtended by a broadly deltoid, yellowish, 5-8-nerved bract. Peduncle basally biconvex, becoming sub-terete upward, rigid, 12-18 mm broad near its base. Racemes sub-capitate, rather laxly flowered; the buds green-tipped; perianth orange-red, pendulous. Pedicels same colour as the perianth, 20-25 mm long. Bracts narrowly deltoid, acute, 5-10 mm long, yellowish, 3-5-nerved. Perianth 25-27 mm long, with a basal swelling 6 mm diam., constricted to 4 mm above the ovary, thence slightly decurved and widening towards the mouth, outer segments free for 6-7 mm, with 3 congested and apically confluent orange-red nerves; the inner segments broader than the outer. Stamens with yellow, filiform, filaments, anthers exserted 3 mm on maturity. Style yellow; stigma at length exserted 5-6 mm. Ovary pale green, 5 mm long, 2 mm broad. Capsule not seen.