Terrestrial herbs. Stems with creeping below and ascending apex, 3-10 cm long, noded distantly. Leaves ovate-elliptic, 3-4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, acute at apex, rounded at base, entire of more or less denticulate, dark green to light green on upper surface, with a white stripe along midrib, purple-red on lower surface; petiole about 1.5 cm long. Peduncle 6-12 cm long, hairy, with 2-3 bract-like sheaths; rachis 2-4 cm long, few-flowered; floral bracts hairy outside, ciliate at lower margins. Flowers racemose; ovary, hairy, greenish brown; sepals ovate-elliptic, 9-11 mm long, concave, dark red-brown, hairy outside; petals elliptic, 9-11 mm long, attenuate at base, slightly concave at apex; lip undivided, 7-8 mm long, base saccate, hairy within, limb tongue-shaped, grooved along midrib, convex at both sides; column 7-8 mm long; anther much shorter than rostellum; pollinia oblanceolate, 2.2-3 mm long, yellow; stigma protruding; rostellum cleft, rostellar arms oblique and truncate at tip; viscidium narrowly ovate, 1.8 mm long.

TAIPEI: Peichiatienshan, Su 1387. TAOYUEN: Lalashan, Su 1388. HSINCHU: Litungshan, Leou 3440. NANTOU: Chitou, Su 534; Leou 3586. CHIAYI: Funchihu, Leou 3661; Tatachia, Leou 3518. PINGTUNG: Lilungshan, Leou 3182.

Korea, Japan, and China. Taiwan, common in forests below 2,000 m.