Japan Flora: Low glabrous saprophytic herb, pale brown when dried; stems 7-12 cm. long, rather firm, erect; scalelike leaves rather numerous, membranous, contiguous on lower part and loose on upper part of the stems, broadly ovate to narrowly deltoid, 1-nerved, subobtuse, 2-5 mm. long; racemes 1.5-3 cm. long, several- to more than 10-flowered, loose, the pedicels ascending, 2-3 mm. long, the bracts lanceolate, shorter to slightly longer than the pedicel; flowers 3.5-4 mm. wide, the tube infundibuliform, slightly shorter than the inner tepals, the outer tepals deltoid-ovate, about half as long as the inner ones, the inner about 1.5 mm. long, subobtuse. July. Woods.

Honshu (Mino Prov.); very rare. Formosa.