Plants caulescent, suckering and forming small groups; stems 15-20 cm long, obliquely ascending. Leaves 12-16,20-5 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, horizontally spreading or recurved, dull brownish, rugose, with a waxy coating; exudate clear when fresh, drying clear; margins entire, with rounded, cartilaginous edge. Inflorescences 20-35 cm tall, with up to 15 spreading branches; branches to 15 cm long, elongate, spreading, the flowers clearly separate; bracts 3-4 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Flowers dull red or pink with conspicuous waxy blooom, subsecund; perianth 24-28 mm long, 7 mm across the ovary, outer tepals free for up to 7 mm; anthers exserted 2-3 mm; style exserted 3-4 mm; ovary brownish, about 5 mm long, 2 mm wide.
Aloe luntii grows on semi-desert flats, on gypsum, at about 900 m. In the Flora of Somalia, Lavranos attributed Aloe luntii to Yemen (Hadhramaut), and Oman (Dhofar). and region N2 of the Flora of Somalia. In a later paper (McCoy and Lavranos 2007, Hazeltonia 13: 29-33), they restricted Aloe luntii to Yemen, placing the Somaliland plants in Aloe kahinii. The two species differ in the length of their stems, color and surface of their leaves, inflorescence length, and color of their leaf exudate.
The description above is based on that in the Flora of Somalia but has been amended to reflect the information in McCoy and Lavranos (2007).
