Japan Flora: Rhizomes elongate, 3-4 mm. in diameter, with relatively long internodes; stems terete, ascending and angled above, 20-40 cm. long, 5- to 8-leaved; leaves oblong, 5- 10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, sessile, papillose only slightly on nerves beneath; peduncles arcuate and reclined, the pedicels 8-12 mm. long, nearly as long as the peduncle; bracts 2, attached to the pedicels about the middle or lower, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 2-2.5 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, many-nerved, the margin usually papillose; flowers about 2 cm. long, white with a green tip, glabrous; filaments about 4 mm. long, nearly smooth, as long as the anthers. June,
Hokkaido (Mako- manai in Ishikari Prov.); rare. Korea. The typical phase occurs in Ussuri and Korea.