Aloe albiflora

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| status = PEW

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite iucn |title=Aloe albiflora |author=Rakotoarisoa, S.E. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T85998416A100531604 |date=2020 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T85998416A100531604.en |access-date=17 January 2024}}

| status2 = CITES_A1

| status2_system = CITES

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| taxon = Aloe albiflora

| image = Aloe albiflora flowers.png

| authority = Guillaumin Aloe albiflora was first described and published in Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. (Paris) sér. 2, 12: 353. 1940 {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=529183-1 |title=Plant Name Details for Aloe albiflora |quote=Notes: Madag |work=IPNI |access-date=May 22, 2011}}

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Aloe albiflora is a species of aloe indigenous to Madagascar with narrow, muricate leaves and widely campanulate, snow-white flowers that are 10mm long and 14mm across the mouth. Its nearest affinity, based on leaf characters only, is Aloe bellatula.Reynolds, Gilbert. The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar. The Trustees, Aloes Book Fund, 1966, p. 407.

Aloe albiflora is cultivated typically as a potted plant in greenhouses or outdoors in mostly frost-free regions.

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albiflora

Category:Plants described in 1940

Category:Endemic flora of Madagascar

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