Japan Flora: Small perennial creeping herb; stems 5-6 cm. long, 3- to 4-leaved toward top; leaves orbicular-ovate, 6-10 mm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, short-petiolate; scape 2-3 cm. long, with white multicellular hairs, 1-bracteate below the middle; flowers 1-3, rose-colored, in loose 1-sided racemes, the bracts broadly lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, appressed to the ovary, loosely ciliate; sepals only very briefly connate at base, the median deltoid-ovate, about 3.5 mm. long, erect, obtuse, 1-nerved, loosely pubescent outside at base, the lateral oblong, erect, about 5 mm. long; petals as long as the median sepal, the lip exserted from the perianth, the claw lanceolate, about twice as long as the limb, with 2 minute tubercles on the sac, the limb spreading, obcordate- trapezoid, about 3.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, bifid at apex. Aug. Evergreen forest;

Honshu Kyushu (Mount Kurodake in Buugo); rare.