Japan Flora: Stems short-creeping, declined above, 10-15 cm. long; leaves few, alternate, broadly lanceolate to ovate or narrowly so, 2-3.5 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, acuminate, acute to cuneate at base, 3- to 5-nerved, the petioles rather broad, shortly sheathing at base, the upper 3 or 4 leaves linear-lanceolate; inflorescence with arcuate peduncles, densely many-flowered, one-sided, 4-6 cm. long, scattered crisped-pubescent, the bracts lanceolate, membranous, 4-7 mm. long, 1-nerved, spreading; flowers white, not fully open; sepals about 4 mm. long, narrowly ovate, sub- obtuse, slightly crisped-pubescent without, 1-nerved; petals narrowly oblanceolate, closely appressed to the dorsal sepal; lip slightly shorter than the sepals, saccate at base, smooth within, the limb narrowly ovate. Aug. Tree-trunks and rocks in mountain forests;

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.

var. brachyphylla F. Maekawa. A northern variant, mostly with shorter and broader leaves. Occurs with the typical phase.