Compilation
Aloe decurva

Perennial herb, usually solitary, acaulescent or with a very short stem. Leaves in a dense rosette, erect-spreading; lamina 40–55 cm long, 8–10 cm wide at the base, lanceolate-attenuate, dull green with a reddish tinge, without spots; margin with pungent deltoid minutely orange-tipped teeth 2–3 mm long and c. 10 mm apart. Inflorescences 1–3, to c. 90 cm long; peduncle simple or occasionally 1-branched, oblique, with numerous scattered sterile bracts below the raceme. Raceme 10–20 × 10–12 cm, curved downwards, very densely flowered; bracts c. 2 × 3 mm deltoid, scarious, brown; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Perianth bright red to orange-red, 30–40 mm long, c. 5 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening to c. 11 mm at the middle then narrowing at the mouth, cylindrical-ellipsoid; outer segments free almost to the base. Stamens and stigma exserted c. 15 mm, both orange coloured. Capsule and seeds not seen.