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Stemless grass aloe 200-300 mm tall, solitary; roots fusiform. Leaves 15-25 cm a rosette, linear to lorate, 220-340 x 4-6 mm, bright green, slightly canaliculate, margins minutely denticulate. Inflorescence a capitate raceme; peduncle 220-480 mm long; bracts ovate-acuminate, ±12 x 5 mm, ±5-nerved. Flowers dull pink or greyish, 7-15 mm long; pedicels 10-20 mm long, lengthening in fruit; inner and outer segments free. Anthers not or very shortly exserted. Ovary ±4.0 x 1.5 mm; style not or very shortly exserted. Fruit 10-15 x 5-7 mm, buff to pale grey.
Succulent, perennial herb, grass-like; acaulescent, rosettes single, erect. Leaves green, with copious slightly tuberculate-spinulescent spots towards base, linear, 250-350 mm long, margins ciliate, with minute whitish teeth in lower half. Inflorescences sometimes 2, simple, erect, 0.3-0.5 m high, with capitate, dense racemes. Flowers dull pink, 10-11 mm long; stamens and stigma not or only slightly exserted. Flowering time Feb., Mar.
A succulent herb. There are about 12 leaves forming a ring. They are narrow and have a channel down the front. They are 12-15 cm long. They have white spots. There are small white teeth along the edge. There are many flowers in a dense group.
Acaulescent, succulent herb, up to 300 mm tall, solitary. Leaves not fibrous, margin usually minutely dentate, 6-10 in a rosette, 220-340 x 4-6 mm. Raceme subdense. Flowers dull pink or greyish.
Differs from the type in having fewer leaves (4-6), leaves distichous, slightly broader and more fleshy, and slightly larger flowers (12 mm), otherwise as in the typical form.
