Description:

• Terrestrial herbs, with fascicles of furry roots, sometimes also with small tubers
• Leaves cauline, linear to lanceolate; basal cluster of linear leaves often present
• Inflorescence a lax or dense, elongate or corymbose raceme; bracts linear and often marginally ciliate; flowers resupinate or not, yellow or pink and white
• Sepals: median one mostly adnate to petals and ± reflexed; laterals spreading
• Petals mostly unlobed, lanceolate-ovate
• Lip basally fused with gynostemium, anchor-shaped, reniform or broadly lanceolate, with or without appendage, frequently with laminar callus
• Gynostemium sometimes shortly stalked; anther thecae pendent and apparent as pair of erect or diverging arms (covered by flat rostellum), each with viscidium at its apex, anther canals diverging, short or long; pollinia 2, sectile, often with long caudicles; stigma convex cushions in median portion of rostellum, at dorsal face of gynostemium
• Capsule oblong, ribbed

Nomenclature:

• Ceratandra Eckl. ex F.A.Bauer
  • Bauer: vol. 4, t. 16 (1837)
  • Rolfe: 265 (1913)
  • Phillips: 238 (1951)
  • Schelpe: 98 (1966)
  • Stewart et al.: 180 (1982)
  • Kurzweil et al.: 213 (1991)
  • Linder & Kurzweil: 320 (1999)
• Ceratandropsis Rolfe
  • Rolfe: 266 (1913)
  • Phillips: 238 (1951)
• Evota Rolfe
  • Rolfe: 268 (1913)
  • Phillips: 238 (1951)
  • Schelpe: 100 (1966)
  • Stewart et al.: 182 (1982)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Species 6, mainly Western Cape, extending into Eastern Cape