Japan Flora: Roots globose; stems slender, 10-20 cm. long, with few scalelike linear leaves; radical leaves usually 2, spreading, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, acute to acuminate; spikes secund, more or less many-flowered; bracts linear, slighdy longer or shorter than the ovary; flowers pale rose; sepals and petals alike, narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved, 6-8 mm. long, gradudly narrowed to an acute apex, nearly erect, slightly connivent above; petals forming a hood with the dorsal sepal; lip narrowly ovate, erect, 7-8 mm. long, 3-lobed, the lobes nearly erect, parallel, linear, the terminal lobe slightly broader; spur curved inward, longer than the perianth. July-Aug. Woods in high mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr. and northw.). Cooler regions of Eurasia.