Aloe vera

Herbs succulent. Stems short, suckering freely to form dense clumps. Leaves sub-basal, slightly distichous in seedlings and new shoots, erect, pale green, sometimes with pale spots in very young plants, linear-lanceolate, 15-35(-50) ? 4-5(-7) cm, margin sparsely spiny-dentate, apex 2- or 3-dentate-pointed. Inflorescence erect, 60-90 cm;peduncle to 2 cm thick;raceme 30-40 ? 5-6 cm, sometimes with 1 or 2 ascending branches, numerous flowered;bracts whitish, broadly lanceolate, 10 ? 5-6 mm, veins 5-7, apex acute. Flowers reflexed;pedicel 1/2 as long as bract. Perianth pale yellow mottled with red, slightly ventricose, 2.5(-3) cm, outer lobes free for 1.8 cm, slightly recurved at apex. Stamens exserted by 4-5 mm. Style conspicuously exserted (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2017).