Plants 10-40 cm tall, pubescent. Leaves 5-15 mm long, ovate-oblong. Raceme 2-7 cm long, erect or drooping. Flowers 1.5-2.2 cm long; pedicels 4-10 cm long. Sepals 4-5, deciduous. Petals 4-5, densely pubescent on the inner face, saccate below. Stamens 8-10; filaments hairy. Capsule subglobose to globose.

Distribution: Like the last species it is found in forests rich in moist humus. Widely distributed in Asia, Europe, Siberia, Japan, Canada and Mexico.