Bartholina etheliae flower profile

In profile, the Bartholina etheliae flower’s long and thin lip segments are prominent, projecting forward from the lip lobes and curving up, ending in their white, irregularly club-shaped enlargements.

The thread-like segments have two colour changes from the white at the base: first a bluish black central line along the fleshy white part and then dark olive-green where they are thinnest and angle up.

A narrowly conical spur ranging from 8 mm to 14 mm long is present, in picture above the bend in the ovary, pointing backwards. The two green lateral sepals are erect behind the forward angled lateral petals that are insignificant compared to the lip (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).