Japan Flora: Stems 4~10 cm. long, long-creeping at base, 3- to 5-leaved in the lower part, glabrous, with scattered white multicellular hairs above; leaves broadly ovate, 7-15 mm. long, rounded at base, 3- to 5-nerved, the petioles short, sheathing at base; upper reduced leaves 1-3, lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long, appressed to the stem; spikes 1- to 3-flowered; flowers white, the bracts scarious, pubescent, 3-6 mm. long, triangular-lanceolate, acute; calyx 3,5-4 mm. long on dorsal side, 5-5.5 mm. on lateral side, tubular-campanulate, loosely pubescent outside, the lobes acute; petals appressed to the dorsal sepal; lip 7-8 mm. long, the spur saccate, the claw slender, sometimes 1- to 2-toothed on the upper margins, the limb triangular, retuse, about 4 mm. long, 6 mm. wide. Aug. Woods;

Kyushu (Yakushima); very rare.