Japan Flora: Stems 10-15 cm. long, creeping at base; leaves few, on the lower portion of the stems, ovate, acute, rounded at base, the petioles short, short-sheathing at the base; peduncles with few scalelike leaves, pubescent; flowers 2-3, pale reddish brown, the bracts linear-lanceolate, about 12 mm. long, long-acuminate, 3-nerved, ciliate; sepals broadly lanceolate, about 10 mm. long, acuminate, the lateral sepals spreading; petals as long as the sepals; lip nearly as long as the sepals, inflated, elliptic, the limb rather short, deltoid, reflexed; column about 10 mm. long. Woods;

Kyushu (Yakushima); very rare. Formosa.