| Biology : |
Terrestrial herb, slender, 60-80 cm tall; tubers ± conical, 3x1,5 cm, forming a short chain; leaves 5-6, the lowest 2 sheath-like, the upper ones ovate-acute, 10-15x3,5-4 cm, margins undulate; inflorescence spike laxly > 40-flowered, c. 30 cm long; flowers c. 18 mm Ø, yellow, lip with purple veins; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, c. 6 mm long; pedicel and ovary c. 13 mm long, decurved; sepals erect, obovate, 9-10x c. 4 mm; petals obliquely ovate, apiculate, 9x7 mm, lying over the column; lip ± triangular, 9x6 mm, obscurely 3-lobed near base, with 2 parallel calli in the throat, each branched, with radiating papillose projections; from base of each callus a low verrucose crest runs down the lip; side lobes rounded; mid-lobe triangular, obtuse; spur conical, short. |
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| Ecology : |
Sandy mopane woodland with xerophytic species, i.a., Euphorbia cooperi, Caralluma schweinfurthii, Kalanchoe sp., Crassula spp. |
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Related to E. friderici, E. gonychila. Easily distinguished by its branched calli. |
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Known from very few collections. |
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