Aloeae is a tribe of succulent plants in the subfamily Asphodeloideae of the family Asphodelaceae, consisting of the aloes and their close relatives.

The taxon may also be treated as the subfamily Alooideae by those botanists who retain the narrower circumscription of Asphodelaceae adopted prior to the APG III system.

The cross-section of the leaves is distinctly boat or crescent shaped, which represents a synapomorphy for all Aloeae taxa.

Stems are monopodial (unbranched) until an inflorescence is formed, and then sympodial (potentially branched); this prevents the rosette from dying as in Agave.

[3] Within the subfamily Asphodeloideae, Aloeae can be diagnosed by their succulent foliage, a basic chromosome number of x = 7, and the presence of specific glycosides in the leaves and anthraquinones in the roots.

[6][7] The Dahlgren system of 1975 onwards was one of the first to produce a classification more in line with current understanding; it placed the "aloes" in the family Asphodelaceae, with the subfamily Alooideae more-or-less corresponding to Batsch's Aloaceae.

However, the APG's approach has not been followed by many botanists, who prefer to maintain the older, narrower circumscription of the Asphodelaceae, with the "aloes" forming the subfamily Alooideae.

Hexangulares Gasteria More detailed cladograms show that some species placed in Haworthiopsis do not fit into the tidy pattern above.

[3] Gordon Rowley, who first separated off Haworthiopsis from Haworthia in 2013, suggested a much broader circumscription of Tulista – essentially as the clade marked "TR" in the above cladogram.

[3] Native distributions are based on the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families; many genera are widely cultivated and introduced elsewhere.

[11] The largest genus, Aloe, with about 400 species, is natively distributed in Africa (including Madagascar), and in the Arabian Peninsula.

Aloidendron, with six or seven species, also has a quite wide native distribution in southern and east Africa extending northwards to the Arabian Peninsula.

Kumara, Haworthia, Astroloba, Tulista and Haworthiopsis are found in winter rainfall areas of southern Africa.