Kumara is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the subfamily Asphodeloideae, native to the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

[2][3] Phylogenetic studies indicated that two species that were traditionally classed as members of the genus Aloe were genetically distinct and comprised an entirely separate clade.

[4] Both species bear characteristically strap-shaped leaves in a two-ranked (orthodistichous) arrangement.

[5] Intergeneric hybrids have nonetheless been recorded, between Kumara and at least one other alooid genus, Gonialoe.

Both are also indigenous to roughly the same range of mountains in the south-western corner of the Western Cape, South Africa, however the tall tree-like Kumara plicatilis is found on the lower slopes of the mountains, while the tiny stemless Kumara haemanthifolia inhabits the high peaks.