Japan Flora: Loosely pilose perennial with long, creeping rhizomes; stems 10-25 cm. long, with few sheathing scales at base; leaves 2, approximate, nearly on the summit of the stem, oblong to elliptic, 7- 15 cm. long, 5-8 cm. wide, obtuse with an acute apex, obtuse and slightly clasping at base, many-nerved, these converging at apex, plicate, slightly pilose on both sides and on margins; peduncles solitary and terminal, 10-20 cm. long, densely pubescent; bract large, broadly lanceolate, leaflike, acuminate, 2-3 cm. long; flowers yellowish brown; dorsal sepal erect, ovate, 2-2.5 cm. long, acute, short-pubescent outside toward the base, the lateral sepals connate into one lamina, slightly bifid at the tip, 13-18 mm. long; petals obliquely ovate, attenuate, ending in a rounded apex; lip obliquely descending, longer than the rest of the perianth; ovary villous. July. Woods in high mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.); very rare. Kuriles and Kamchatka.