Japanese name: クモイジガバチ(雲居似我蜂) Scientific name:Liparis truncata
[Overview]
A perennial 3–10 cm tall, growing as an epiphyte among moss on trees such as beech, Mongolian oak and Japanese horse chestnut in cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forests.
It has ovate pseudobulbs and bears 2 simple leaves alternately.
The leaves are ovate with an abruptly pointed tip, and the surface has longitudinal wrinkles and a gloss.
A raceme bears 3–5 flowers, pale green to pale dark purple.
The lateral sepals are broadly linear and extend sideways, and the lateral petals hang down.
The lip is inversely triangular and strongly recurved, with dark purplish brown parallel veins in the center.
It resembles Fugaku-suzumushisou, but can be distinguished by the parallel veins on the lip.