Japan Flora: Stems 12-25 cm. long from a creeping base; leaves ovate to narrowly so, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm, wide, acute, flat, entire, rounded or subcordate at base, white-reticulate on upper side, rarely green, the petioles 1-2 cm. long, with a membranous short sheath at base; scapes elongate, densely soft crisped-pubescent, the scalelike leaves 2-3, erect, linear, often short-sheathing; inflorescence 5-10 cm. long, 7- to 12-flowered, rather long crisped-hairy; flowers rose to white, half-open; bracts erect, appressed to the ovary; sepals 8-10 mm. long, narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 1-nerved; petals broadly oblanceolate, appressed to the median sepals; lip nearly as long as the sepals, saccate at base, semirounded, pilose within, the limb ovate，sabobtuse; column about 3/5 as long as the sepals; capsules 8-12 mm. long.
Aug.-Sept. Woods;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rare. Korea and China.

f. similis (Bl.) Makino. Leaves green throughout; occurs with the typical phase.

Japan Flora: Stems 10-15 cm. long from an elongate creeping base; leaves several, ob-long-ovate or ovate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute, deep green and purplish, white-striate on the midnerve, rounded at base, the petioles sheathing below; peduncles short, whitish pilose, the scalelike leaves 2-3, linear; inflorescence 4- to 10- flowered, secund, minutely hairy, the bracts ascending, linear-the sepals, saccate at base, pubescent within，the limb ovate, obtuse; capsule 7-10 mm. long in fruit. Aug.- Sept. Woods;

Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rather rare. Korea.