Japan Flora: Stems 5-10 cm. long, from a creeping base; leaves 1-3, with small tubers in the axils, narrowly oblong to broadly lanceolate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, obtuse, gradually narrowed to a short-sheathing base; peduncles slender, naked; racemes 3-5 cm. long, rather densely flowered, the bracts broadly lanceolate, appressed to the ovary, 1.5-25 mm. long; flowers pale green, 2.5- 3 mm. across; sepals narrowly ovate, 1-nerved, subobtuse, about 2 mm. long, the dorsal sepal recurved, the lateral ones spreading; petals ovate, about 1 mm. long, 1-nerved; lip on upper side of flower, erect, deltoid-ovate, 1.5 mm. long, with lower margins slightly involute; capsules ellipsoid-globose, pedicelled, about 2.5-3 mm. long. Aug. Bogs;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); very rare. s. Kuriles, Sakhalin, Siberia, Europe, and N. America.