Plants solitary or with a few offshoots. Leaves about 20up to 60 cm long, 5 cm wide, lanceolate, ascending-eretct, rigid, glaucous green, heavily white-spotted; margins with brown teeth; teeth about 1.5 mm long, 15-35 mm apart. Inflorescences to 200 cm tall, with 2-6 branches; branches to 50 cm long, with flowers cylindric in outline, flowers fairly densely distributed; bracts about 12 mm long, 4 mm wide, pubescent; pedicels about 10 mm long, pubescent. Flowers greenish to lemon yellow, tomentose, pendent; perianths 28-30 mm long, about 6 mm wide across the ovary, outer tepals free for about 18 mm; anthers hardly exserter; ovary about 6 mm long; stigma exserted about 4 mm.
Aloe citrina grows in Acacia-Commiphora bushland or dry forets, usually on deep sand, at 150-700 m. It is known from regions C2 and S1-S3 of the Flora of Somalia, Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya.