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This aloe sometimes occurs as solitary rosettes, but usually forms small groups. Leaves are very narrow, yellowish green to dull green and usually without spots on the lower surface. Peduncle and flowers are lightly covered with a grey powdery bloom. Inflorescences are up to 2 m high and compactly branched from above the middle. Flowers are ± 30 mm long and pale dull brick red, with a 1 mm wide dull white border on the outer perianth segments.
Leaves spreading-erect, rosulate; lamina 30–45 cm long, 5–10 cm wide toward the base, lanceolate-attenuate, fleshy, light green, obscurely lineate on both surfaces, with faint whitish spots on the upper surface, usually without spots on the lower surface; margin with pungent, deltoid, pale brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long, 10–15 mm apart; sap pale purplish.
Perianth pale brick-red, 27–30 mm long, c. 8 mm in diameter across the ovary, constricted just above then widening and becoming slightly decurved, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free for less than one-third, with pale margins above, and with spreading tips.
Inflorescence erect, 1.2–2 m high; peduncle stout, with up to 8-branches, the lower branches rebranching; branches ascending, subtended by lanceolate, often leafy bracts to 5 cm long.
Racemes 20–40 × 7 cm, cylindric, ± laxly flowered; bracts 8–15 × 3 mm, lanceolate-acuminate; pedicels 5–8 mm long, distinctly shorter than the bracts.
Perennial herb, solitary or suckering to form small groups of plants, acaulescent or with a short thick stem to 20 cm long.
Seeds c. 3.5 × 7.5 mm, black with grey, sparsely spotted wings.
Capsule c. 33 × 14 mm, oblong-ovoid, yellowish-grey.
Stamens and stigma slightly exserted.
