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|accepted_name=Aloe
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 319. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 150. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Aloe
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Aloaceae;Aloe
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aloaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aloe]]</div></div>
|etymology=Arabic alloeh, a name for these or similar plants
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>succulent, shrubby or arborescent, scapose. <b>Stems</b> erect, clambering or ascending, branched or not. <b>Leaves</b> succulent, crowded, often rosulate or distichous; blade margins spiny-toothed or entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, paniculate to more often racemose, dense, bracteate. <b>Flowers</b> usually nodding; perianth red to yellow; tepals connate basally to almost entirely into tube; stamens 3 or 6; style slender; pedicel not articulate. <b>Capsules</b> papery to woody. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=primarily s and tropical Africa;also Madagascar;Arabian peninsula;and Atlantic islands (Madeira;Canary;and Cape Verde);naturalized in the Mediterranean region;India;and China.
|discussion=<p>Species 300 or more (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Aloe saponaria (Aiton) Haworth, distinguished by its yellow sap and glaucous red flowers with yellow throats, is cultivated in the southwestern United States and has been observed to escape. Apparently it persists only when supplementary water is available.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=moran1992b
|text=Moran, R. 1992. Aloe wild in California. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 64: 55–56.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=reynolds1982a
|text=Reynolds, G. W. 1982. The Aloes of South Africa, ed. 4. Rotterdam.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth yellow; inflorescences unbranched or rarely branched; leaf blade margins green.
|[[Aloe vera|Aloe vera]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth red; inflorescences divided distally into 5–10 arching branches; leaf blade margins narrowly whitish.
|[[Aloe × schonlandii|Aloe × schonlandii]]
|}
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name=Aloe
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Aloaceae
|distribution=primarily s and tropical Africa;also Madagascar;Arabian peninsula;and Atlantic islands (Madeira;Canary;and Cape Verde);naturalized in the Mediterranean region;India;and China.
|introduced=true
|reference=moran1992b;reynolds1982a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Aloe
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