Лизиелла

Family: orchids. Grows in deciduous and coniferous forests of Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Лизиелла is a small plant up to 20 cm tall. Stem with a single oblong-lanceolate leaf, 5-7 cm long, strongly narrowed at the base into a narrow winged sheath. Inflorescence of 4 - 9 flowers, up to 4-5 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, green. Flowers white, tips of the outer perianth segments greenish. The median outer perianth segment rounded-ovate, up to 2.3 mm long; lateral segments reflexed to the sides, oblong and unequal-sided, up to 3 mm long; the two inner segments are close to the median outer one. Lip directed downward, rhombic-lanceolate, with 2 obtuse tubercles at the base; spur up to 3 mm long, half the length of the ovary. Ovary sessile, slightly twisted. Flowers in June - July.