Japan Flora: Rhizomes elongate, thickened; plant brown-pubescent, 50-100 cm. high; stems fleshy, firm, erect, loosely scaly, branched above; scales deltoid- to deltoid-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, slightly fleshy and firm, striate, concave, 1-1.5 cm. long; branches ascending, 5-10 cm. long, interspersed with small scales; racemes densely flowered; bracts 3-5 mm. long; flowers about 2.5 cm. across, yellowish brown; sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, ascending, fleshy, densely brown-puberulent outside; petals glabrous; lip erect, fleshy, obovate, rounded to obtuse, with elevated cristate lines within, finely toothed on margin, slightly shorter than the sepals; column rather long, slightly incurved; ovary brown-puberulent; fruit pendulous, narrowly cylindric-oblong, 6-8 cm. long, fleshy, red when mature; seeds winged. June-Aug.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.