Japan Flora: Rhi­zomes short-creeping; leaves linear, laterally flattened, broadest above the middle, 3-6 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, abruptly acute and mucronate or short-acuminate, scabrous on margin; scapes 6-15 cm. long, erect, with 1 or 2 short leaves; racemes loosely about 10-flowered, the pedicels 2-6 mm. long, erect, rather stout; flowers erect, greenish white, about 3 mm. long, the bracteoles 3, minute, nearly free; capsules oblong, about 4 mm. long, erect; style very short; stigma small, discoid. July-Aug. Alpine meadows and on rocks.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rare.