Aloe ammophila Reynolds in J. S. Afr. Bot. 2: 116 (1936).

Type: South Africa, Limpopo Province, Pietersburg, on road to Chuniespoort, flowered in Johannesburg 14 March 1936, G.W. Reynolds 1345 (PRE, holo.!)

Diagnostic characters: This aloe typically forms large dense colonies of up to 100 plants. Leaves are usually clearly spotted in transverse bands on the lower surface. Inflorescences are up to 0.66 m high and widely branched from about the middle with long, wide and divaricate branches so that the inflorescence is often wider than it is high (Figure 2). Flowers are 30–33 mm long and coralred, with a 1 mm wide white border on the outer perianth segments.

Distribution: It is centred around Polokwane (Pietersburg), but occurs from the Bela-Bela (Warmbad) and Mookgophong (Naboomspruit) area, northwards to Louis Trichardt, Wylies Poort and Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Habitat: Flat places, in rich sandy soil, usually in grassveld, sometimes in clearings among acacia and other shrubs.