Holothrix brevipetala Immelman & Schelpe

Plants erect, scape without bracts, stout, hispid with reflexed hairs, 60-310 mm high; leaves sometimes withered at anfhesis, densely covered with small squamules or stout hairs. Flowers: Sepals densely pilose, 1-2.5 mm long. Petals entire, carnose at apices, 2.5-3.5 x 0.5-1.5 mm, sometimes warty in texture, yellow-green. Lip carnose, ovate in outline with 3-5 short, broad lobes 2.5-3.5 x 2-3.5 mm, sometimes warty, yellow-green; spur slightly curved, 1-2 mm long.