Japan Flora: Rhizomes slender, long-creeping; stems 8-15 cm. long, glabrous to scattered-papillose; leaves 2, cauline, petiolate, deltoid-ovate, cordate, 2-5 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, glabrous to scattered papillose, the marginal cells columnar or ovate-deltoid; racemes about 20-flowered, 2-3 cm. long, the pedicels slender, 3-8 mm. long, the flowers white, the tepals elliptic, 1-nerved, spreading or slightly recurved, about 2 mm. long; style short, the stigma shallowly 2-lobcd; fruit globose, red, about 5 mm. in diameter. May-July. Damp coniferous woods in mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rare. Kuriles, Sakhalin, n. Korea, also in Europe and North America.