Japan Flora: Plants pale brown, saprophytic, without green leaves; rhizomes rather thick, creeping, branching, with small loose scales; stems erect, rather fleshy, 5-15 cm. long, glabrous, with loose scales; leaves scalelike, 4-10 mm. long, thinly membranous, subobtuse, 1-nerved, sheathing at base; inflorescence 2-3.5 cm. long, 5- to 10-flowered; bracts ovate-oblong or ovate, 5-8 mm. long, erect; sepals obtuse, 1-nerved, 3-4 mm. long; petals narrowly oblong, the lip about 6 mm. long, saccate- inflated at base, with 2 globose callosities within, the limb T- shaped; column with 2 horn-shaped appendages on the inner surface. June-July.

Honshu (Rikuzen Prov. and southw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.