Grass aloe with acaulescent rosettes, solitary or sometimes suckering from base to form small groups, ascending or decumbent, up to 0.13 m high. Leaves rosulate, ascending-spreading to ± prostrate, linear, subterete, 80-190 x 1.7-2.5 mm; leathery to smooth, dark green to purplish green, especially towards base with small, faint, oval white spots on lower surface, margins denticulate, especially in lower 3/4, marginal teeth white, cartilaginous, 0.3 mm long, 1.5 mm apart, apex acuminate. Inflorescence 0.100-0.145 m high, ascending to decumbent, simple. Raceme shortly capitate, 15 mm long, rather dense. Floral bracts 4 x 2.5 mm. Pedicels 7-9 mm long. Flowers: perianth pink, greenish tipped, 8-11 mm long, narrowing towards slightly upturned mouth, cylindrical, angular and trigonous; outer segments free to base; stamens and style not exserted. Flowering time Feb., Mar.
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