Japan Flora: Glabrous, saprophytic, pale brown herb with short, thickened, much-branched coralloid rhizomes; stems 7-20 cm. long, fleshy, loosely sheathed, slightly thickened at base, the sheaths short, thinly membranous, nerveless, obliquely truncate, 5-10 mm. long; racemes loosely 2- to 8-flowered, the bracts narrowly ovate, thinly membranous, erect, nearly nerveless, acuminate, 6-10 mm. long; flowers brownish, about 18 mm. across, pedicelled; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, reflexed, 12-14 mm. long, 1-nerved; petals slightly shorter than the sepals, lanceolate，acute; lip nearly as long as the petals, spreading, rose-colored and purple-spotted within, with 4-6 cristate, papillose lines in the center, the lateral lobes (auricles) small, ovate, the terminal lobe large, slightly concave, obtuse, with undulate margins at tip; spur oblong, rounded at apex, slightly shorter than the lip, 6-8 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; ovary pedicelled, nearly globose. Aug.-Oct. Coniferous woods;

Hokkaido, Honshu; very rare. Europe, Caucasus, Himalayas, Siberia, Korea, Sakhalin, Ussuri, and Kamchatka.