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Apparently stemless grass aloe 0.6-1.2 m tall, solitary or in small groups. Leaves 16-20, distichous, rarely spirally twisted to rosulate in old specimens, 400-800 x 25-60 mm, distinctly keeled, V-shaped in section, bright green, undersurface white-spotted near base, margins cartilaginous, dentate. Inflorescence a conical, sublax raceme; peduncle 0.4-1 m long, with sterile bracts; bracts ovate-acuminate, 13-33 x 6-8 mm, many-nerved. Flowers salmon-pink to blood-red, 25-40 mm long; all segments free; pedicels 30-60 mm long, lengthening in fruit. Anthers not or hardly exserted. Ovary ±5 x 2 mm; style exserted 3-5 mm. Fruit 33-40 x 12-13 mm, grey.
Succulent, perennial herb, grass-like; acaulescent or stem up to 0.15 m high, usually simple, sometimes suckering to form small groups. Leaves distichous, green, usually without spots adaxially and with copious white spots at base abaxially, obscurely lineate, narrowly long-deltoid, distinctly keeled, V-shaped in cross section, margins narrow, white, with firm, white teeth. Inflorescence simple, erect, up to 1 m or more high, with conical, dense racemes. Flowers salmon-pink near base, green at apex, 38-40 mm long; stamens not or only slightly exserted; stigma exserted. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Leaves distichous, or sometimes becoming rosulate, erect, grass-like, 60–80 cm long, linear, 1.5–2 cm wide, expanded to 5–6 cm wide at the base, tapering to the apex, deeply channelled on upper surface, keeled on lower surface, ± fleshy, mid-green, white-spotted towards the base especially on the lower, brownish surface; margin cartilaginous, with whitish teeth 0.5–2 mm long, the teeth crowded near the base, more distant above and obsolescent at the apex.
Perianth salmon-pink, green-tipped, 35–40 mm long and c. 12 mm in diameter across the ovary, cylindric-trigonous, narrowing toward the mouth, tapering into the pedicel; outer segments free almost to the base with tips slightly spreading.
A herb. The leaves are in two ranks. They are rather soft. They taper from the base to the tip. They are 1 m long and 3-5 cm wide. There are soft teeth along the edge. The flowering stalk is 1 m high. They are orange of pink.
Raceme 10–20 × 10–14 cm, conical, ± densely flowered, with overlapping bracts in bud; bracts 25–35 × 10 mm, ovate-acuminate; pedicels 3.5–5.5 cm long, elongating up to 8 cm in fruit.
Inflorescence simple, erect, 70–100 cm high or more; peduncle with large, pink-tinged, sterile bracts on the upper half, 2–7 cm apart.
Perennial herb, solitary, or occasionally older plants suckering to form small clusters of stems.
Stamens scarcely exserted, style a little longer.
Capsule and seeds not seen.
Stems to 15 cm high.
