Japan Flora: Small green herb with slender, slightly thickened roots; stems 8-15 cm. long (to 40 cm. long in var. elata Finet); leaves 2, approximate, on the lower part of stems, elliptic to broadly so, or nearly orbicular, 2-6 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, rounded to mucronate at apex, abruptly narrowed at base; scalelike leaves few, linear-lanceolate; racemes 2-10 cm. long, many to rather few-flowered; bracts as long as to slightly longer than the flowers, rarely shorter, linear, broadened at base; flowers minute, green; sepals nearly equal, oblong to elliptic, rounded at apex, 1- nerved, about 2 mm. long, the lateral sepals spreading, slightly oblique; petals ovate to broadly so, slightly shorter than the sepals; lip ovate-orbicular, obtuse, as long as the sepals, somewhat thickened; spur 1-1.3 mm. long, slightly incurved and thickened above, obtuse. July-Sept. High mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rare. Along Bering Sea, Kamchatka, Kuriles, and Sakhalin.