Aloiampelos (combination of ‘Aloe’ and ‘ampelos’=vine or creeper), formerly Aloe ser. Macrifoliae (the climbing-aloes) is a genus of succulent plants in the subfamily Asphodeloideae, comprising seven species found in Southern Africa. They are typically multi-branched climbing or sprawling shrubs, with long spindly stems and a large woody base on the ground.

Aloiampelos tenuior, previously known as Aloe tenuoir, is a rambling aloe that forms a small shrub consisting of a tangled mass of thin, branched stems. Leaves are blue-green with a prominent sheath that is not auriculate, and obscurely lined. The small red, orange or yellow flowers are cylindric and uncurved, and carried in elongated racemes. These attract birds, bees and butterflies to the garden. This aloe grows in open country on sandy soil and rarely in valley bushveld. Aloiampelos tenuior is a South African indigenous succulent that occurs from fairly widely in the Eastern Cape and into southern KwaZulu-Natal, with a disjunctive distribution in northern KwaZulu-Natal at the border with Swaziland and Mpumalanga. It is very popular in horticulture.