These typically multi-branched sprawling aloe species have rigid fleshy leaves and slender pedicels about the length of the perianth, each being roughly 40 mm long.

The stems tend to sprawl along the ground, with the ends densely leafed and upturned.

Here they inhabit open, rocky areas and have consequently evolved their decumbent sprawling habit of growth.

[2] The name of the series "Mitriformes" is not to be confused with that of the Aloe perfoliata subspecies "mitriformis".

Both "Mitriformes" and "mitriformis" mean "mitre-shaped" and refer to the distinctive shape of the plants' rosettes.