Amitostigma Kinoshita

Family Orchidaceae. A Kuril–Japanese endemic, it occurs in our country only on Kunashir Island (Kuril Islands), in bogs.

A small graceful plant 10 - 20 cm tall with slender stems and root tubers. Leaves 1 - 2 in the lower half of the stem, they are alternate, linear, 4 - 8 cm long. Inflorescence one-sided, spike-like, 2 - 5-flowered. Flowers pale pink or white. Bracts green, lanceolate, often shorter than the ovary. Perianth segments of the outer whorl 3 - 4.5 mm long, obtuse, with 3 veins, the median one elliptical, the lateral ones unequal-sided, oval; perianth segments of the inner whorl of the same size, unequal-sided, oval, with two veins. Lip 8 - 10 mm long, three-lobed, cuneate, spur 1 - 1.5 mm, lateral lobes of the lip lanceolate, the median lobe slightly longer, shallowly divided. Two stigmas, ovary short. Capsule on a short stalk. Kuril plants differ from the Japanese ones by smaller flowers, a longer median lobe of the lip and a shorter ovary. Flowers in June - August.