Japan Flora: Rhizomes short; stems 10-25 cm. long, rather slender, gla-brous, 3- to 4-scaled; scalelike leaves loose, sheathing, tubular, membranous, 2-3 cm. long, very obtuse, few-nerved; racemes 5-10 cm. long, loosely-flowered, glabrous, the bracts membranous, ovate, rather acute, 1-1.5 mm. long, spreading; flowers 3-4 mm. across; sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, 1-nerved, spreading, recurved at tip, about 3 mm. long; petals slightly shorter than the sepals; lip nearly as long as the sepals, deltoid-ovate, 2-3 mm. long, very acute, spreading, 3-nerved, entire, with slightly involute margins at tip; ovary glabrous, short-pedicel led; capsules about 3 mm. long. June-Aug. Coniferous woods;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); very rare. Sakhalin, Ussuri, Kamchatka, and Korea.