Japanese name: フガクスズムシソウ(富岳鈴虫草) Scientific name:Liparis fujisanensis
[Overview]
A perennial 3–10 cm tall, found in cool-temperate deciduous forests, growing mainly as an epiphyte on beech trees.
It has ovoid pseudobulbs and bears two simple, alternate leaves.
The leaves are ovate, 1.5–5 cm long, with an abruptly pointed tip.
A raceme bears several flowers about 1 cm across, pale reddish purple to purplish brown.
The lateral sepals are broadly linear.
The lateral petals are very slender, linear and hang down.
The lip is obovate and bends backward at 1/3 of the way from the base.
[Notes]
The Japanese name derives from its discovery around Mt. Fuji.