Aloe

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Asphodelaceae

• Scientific Name

  Aloe

• Description

  Description - Succulent plants with a short or elongated caudex, the thick tufted leaves with spiny-toothed margins, the racemose flowers nodding. Perianth subcylindric, the segments connivent or coherent, their tips somewhat spreading. Stamens 6, with slender filaments and oblong anthers. Ovary sessile, 3-angled and 3-celled; style filiform, tipped by the small stigma; ovules many in each cavity of the ovary. Capsule leathery, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, black. [Name ancient.] Over 75 species, mostly African. Type species: Aloe perfoliata L.