Aloe suprafoliata Pole-Evans

suprafoliata: with leaves on top of each other, referring to the arrangement of the leaves of young plants.

Stemless or short-stemmed perennial herb, growing solitary in small groups. Young plants with very distinct 2-ranked overlapping leaves. Spiral leaf-arrangement only after several years of growth. Leaves up to c. 30 cm long, bluish-green often tinged purple-red; margins armed with sharp brown teeth. Inflorescences 1-3, simple narrow racemes with a silvery sheen. Flowers pinkish-red, green at the tips, cylindical; bracts broadly rounded. Flowers can be present when plant still has leaves 2-ranked but mostly only once leaves are rosulate.

Very local in Mozambique

Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and Mpumalanga, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.