Japan Flora: Rhizomes thick, short; stems stout, fleshy, 25-45 cm. long, brownish crisped-pubescent above, erect, simple; leaves scalelike, tubular, membranous, alternate, loose, glabrous, 1.5-4 cm. long; racemes 10-15 cm. long, loosely or somewhat densely flowered, erect, with short, crisped, brown, glandular hairs above; bracts deltoid-Ianceolate to deltoid-ovate, membranous, 1- ribbed, gradually narrowed to the tip, 4-7 mm. long; flowers yellow, 6-7 mm. across, with a glandular-pubescent pedicel; sepals and petals obovate, 1-nerved, 5-6 mm. long, very obtuse, concave; lip 10-12 mm. long, deeply bifid, the limb oblong, papillose inside, often pubescent without，the lobes ascending, narrowly oblong, falcate, obtuse or rounded, some-times truncate at apex; column about 3.5 mm. long. May-June. Woods in mountains; 

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.); very rare. Sakhalin, s, Kuriles, Manchuria, and e. Siberia.