Russia Flora: Plants up to 40 cm tall. Tubers compressed, 2-4-divided. Stem thick. Leaves up to 20 cm long and 4 cm wide, narrowly lanceolate, widest near base, bluntly pointed, hooded at apex, without spots, upper leaves smaller and narrower. Inflorescence up to 10 cm long and 3 cm wide, dense, short-cylindrical. Bracts lanceolate, pointed, violet-tinged, lower ones longer than flowers, upper ones equal to them. Flowers violet-purple or violet-pink. Outer perianth segments 5-7 mm long, spotted. Lip 5-7 mm long, broadly rhombic, entire or indistinctly 3-lobed, blunt, with slightly protruding blunt tip. Spur 5-6 mm long, conical-cylindrical, bluntish, slightly curved, 1/2-1/3 shorter than ovary.

Aldan ("Ayano-Maysky District, vicinity of Nelkan village, meadow in Chuyka River valley, very rare, 9 VIII 1978, S.S. Kharkevich, T.G. Buch"; "Ayano-Maysky District, Ket-Kap Range, upper reaches of Yarmarka-Khapchana River - right tributary of Bol. Aim River, subalpine belt, herb meadow on limestone slope, rare, 2 VII 1989, I. Vyshin, V. Barkalov, T. Bezdeleva" - VLA). - On herb meadows. - General distribution: European part, Caucasus, West and East Siberia; Scandinavia, Atlantic and Central Europe, Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Mongolia, Japan-China (Northwest China). - Described from Sweden.