Jason's Bearded Orchid

Family Orchidaceae. Usually grows on wet meadows and herbaceous bogs of the Far Eastern Primorye.

Small terrestrial plant with a thin long rhizome. Stems 20 - 40 cm tall with scale-like leaves at the base and 1 (very rarely 2) green lanceolate leaf, fairly large (up to 10 cm long), forming 2 narrow wings on the stem. Flower pink, solitary, large - up to 2.5 cm in diameter, with a leaf-like bract. Outer perianth segments 3-5 cm long, inner ones shorter, narrowly oblong, serrated at the margin. Lip without a spur, three-lobed, the middle lobe bent downward, with fleshy reddish hair-like papillae. Fruit - a capsule up to 2.5 cm long, 0.5 cm wide. Blooms in July - August.

Occurs mainly on wet soils with pH 4.4 - 4.8. Reproduces vegetatively by rhizomes. The rhizome penetrates the soil fairly deeply - up to 10 cm. The formation of young buds occurs at a distance of 4 - 7 cm from the shoot of the current year.