Japan flora: Rhizomes short; leaves 3-5, narrowly oblong to broadly ob-lanceolate, 10-30 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, acuminate, usually puberulent beneath, narrowed toward the base; scapes 20-40 cm. long, puberulent above, with a solitary green scale; ra-cemes 10-15 cm. long, loosely 10- to 20-flowered, the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, green, 1-2 cm. long, puberulent; flowers pale purple; sepals gradually acuminate, 15-20 mm. long, the dorsal sepal narrowly ovate, the lateral ones ovate, re flexed; petals 12-15 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, broadly linear, acuminate; lip flat, broadly ovate, as long as the sepals, cuspidate, deeply 3-lobed, the terminal lobe relatively large, broadly cuneate-elliptic, with undulate margins, rounded, mucronate; spur absent. Aug.

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