Japan Flora: Glabrous green perennial; rhizomes about 2 mm. in diameter, with obtuse membranous, many-nerved scales 3- 6 mm. long; radical leaves sometimes longer than the scape, glabrous, linear, 5-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, acuminate to gradually so, somewhat narrowed at base, the margin scabrous, with few parallel nerves; scapes 10-30 cm. long, the scales membranous, lanceolate, 1-nerved, subobtuse; inflorescence dense, racemose, simple, erect, several- to relatively many­flowered, the bracts similar to the scales, the pedicels 2-4 mm. long, ascending; tepals 2-2.5 mm. long, ascending to spread­ing, persistent; capsules oblong-ovate, about 3 mm. long.  July-Aug. Alpine meadows.

Hokkaido, Honshu (Mount Shibutsu and Mount Tanigawa in Kotsuke); rare.