Type: Brazil, origin unknown, (The place and the necessary date of the collection is not in the protologue or on the label of the type collection. However, Glaziou 19918 - type collection of E. glazioui Mez - was collected in March 1892, in Biribiri (Diamantina, MG). col. A. F. M Glaziou 19919, 1891/ 1892, fl. (holotype B, Photo F, SP, SPF; isotype P, photo SPF).